A U.S. defense contractor secured a $10 million judgment after a former cybersecurity executive sold stolen surveillance tools to a Russian broker.

Peter Williams, who once led the contractor’s cyber‑operations team, pocketed $1.3 million by transferring the tools to a broker known to work with Vladimir Putin’s government. The contractor sued Williams for breach …

The toolkit comprised custom‑built packet‑sniffers, credential‑harvesting scripts and remote‑execution modules that the contractor had developed for classified government contracts. Those tools enable an operator to i…

The buyer was a Russian intermediary that markets cyber‑capabilities to state‑aligned actors. Open‑source intelligence links the broker to several groups that have conducted disinformation campaigns and infrastructure…