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Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

medkrebsPublished 2026-07-08

<p>A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform they operated under assumed names.</p> <p>The X/Twitter account <strong>IRIS C2</strong> (@C2IRIS)

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Original source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/felons-fraudsters-flog-offensive-cybersecurity-startup/