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US Issues Cyber Sanctions over Sale of Sensitive Exploit Tools, Stolen Trade Secrets
- On Tuesday, February 24, 2026, Peter Williams, 39-year-old Australian, former general manager of Trenchant, was sentenced to 87 months in U.S. prison for selling trade secrets to a Russian broker.
- Williams admitted stealing eight zero-day exploits from Trenchant between 2022 and 2025, exploiting his access as general manager and his background at the Australian Signals Directorate.
- A judge ordered Peter Williams to forfeit $US1.3 million and surrender a house, watches and jewellery bought with cryptocurrency payments, prosecutors said.
- The U.S. Department of Justice estimated the theft caused $35 million in losses, and a restitution hearing is scheduled for May; the U.S. Treasury and U.S. State Department announced sanctions against Operation Zero and Sergey Sergeyevich Zelenyuk on Tuesday.
- Officials said the tools could have accessed millions of digital devices, and those capabilities were meant for restricted use by the U.S. government and Five Eyes partners, affecting allied intelligence capabilities.
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The U.S. authorities announced Tuesday the imposition of sanctions against three entities and four persons of Russian nationality who are accused of distributing digital tools “damaged for (their) security” to take “commercial secrets” from U.S. citizens. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) thus sanctioned a man identified as Sergei Sergeievich Zelenyuk and his company ‘Matrix LLC’ (Operation Zero), in addition to f…
US Treasury Sanctions Russian National for Allegedly Trading Stolen US Cyber Tools
The U.S. Treasury Department and the U.S. Department of State imposed sanctions on a Russian national and his firm for allegedly acquiring and selling stolen cyber tools originally developed for the U.S. government, officials announced Tuesday. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Sergey Sergeyevich Zelenyuk and Matrix LLC, doing business as Operation Zero, as well as five related individuals and entities. The firm traded in st…
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