Mike Lynch, the tycoon missing from a sunken yacht in Sicily, Darktrace and British intelligence
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Read this. And then the post underneath. Something seems off doesn't it
https://t.me/alwaysfollowyourconscience/3528
It gets more hmmm - Lynch's lawyer was on the yacht too
"Christopher J Morvillo, a former assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York, specialises in representing corporate and individual clients in white-collar government investigations"
"Morvillo, who became a Clifford Chance partner in 2011, had a high-profile role in prosecutions and investigations, including those arising from the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon"
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/magic-circle-partner-in-lynch-yacht-tragedy/5120656.article
"It seems Mike Lynch, currently missing at sea off the coast of Sicily, was deeply involved with the security services.
Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996. Their speciality was fingerprint recognition. This is covered in most of the press coverage as the company was at the centre of his recent trial for fraud in the US. However, what isn’t covered so much is the company he funded next: Darktrace.
Darktrace was founded in 2013 as a leading cyber AI company and were set-up to prevent data loss and data theft by “insider threats.” They were created as a response to Bradley Manning’s leaks to Wikileaks and founded just days after the first of Edward Snowden’s revelations was published by The Guardian. They were particularly concerned with stopping Wikileaks-style leaks of information.
They were seed-funded by Invoke Capital, a specialist technology investment fund headed by Lynch.
“Darktrace is the world’s leading cyber AI company and the creator of Autonomous Response technology.
Its self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 3,500 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks and industrial systems. This includes insider threat, industrial espionage, IoT compromises, zero-day malware, data loss, supply chain risk and long-term infrastructure vulnerabilities.”
Darktrace is known for extensively hiring former spies and was founded when Lynch brokered a meeting between GCHQ officers and Cambridge mathematicians. The company boasts that it has former members of MI5, MI6, CCHQ, the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI on staff.
One of the co-founders was Stephen Huxter, a senior figure in MI5’s “cyber defence team” who became Darktrace’s managing director. Darktrace later appointed Dave Palmer, who had worked at MI5 and GCHQ, as its director of technology, while John Richardson OBE, director of security, had a long career in “UK government security and intelligence” working on “cyber defence”. - Source, declassifieduk.org
Sir Jonathan Evans, former director general of MI5 joined Darktrace’s board in an advisory role in 2013. Former foreign secretary Amber Rudd did so in 2020.
Interestingly, as a side note, one of the major investors in Darktrace is Vitruvian Partners. The vice-president and cyber-security adviser of Vitruvian Partners is Alexander Arbuthnot. His mother is Lady Emma Arbuthnot, the Westminster chief magistrate who oversaw the extradition proceedings against Julian Assange.
But such is Darktrace’s profile that CEO Nicole Eagan accompanied Prime Minister David Cameron on an official visit to Washington D.C. to discuss cyber security policy with then U.S. President Barack Obama.
It’s been quite a few months for Darktrace in 2024.
In April, it was announced that Darktrace is to be bought by US private equity firm Thoma Bravo in a deal worth 5.32 billion dollars (£4.25 billion).
In June, Lynch and his co-defendant Stephen Chamberlain were found not guilty at their fraud and conspiracy trial. Chamberlain worked with Lynch at Autonomy as Vice President of Finance and later became COO of Darktrace. They both left in 2018 when charges were filed.
Chamberlain was killed after being hit by a car on Saturday. 48 hours later Lynch’s yacht was sunk off Sicily"
From https://x.com/MichaelEWriter/status/1825648751618232715?t=3czD7L4_H8rU85rAJ7rBnQ&s=19
More on Mike Lynch, the tycoon missing from a sunken yacht in Sicily, Darktrace and British intelligence, from a 2015 article: "Darktrace started working with GCHQ and MI5 very early on. Lynch's very first company, Cambridge Neurodynamics, had done work for the British intelligence agencies; as Lynch told WIRED US in 2002, "they have the most interesting problems". Steve Huxter, an ex-MI5 man, was a Darktrace co-founder. Andrew France, deputy director for cyberdefence at GCHQ, was poached as CEO. Sir Jonathan Evans (now Lord Evans of Weardale), a former director general of MI5 who memorably argued that intelligence obtained through torture "had to be seen in the context of the times", became an adviser to the board. There were other hires from GCHQ, MI5 and the NSA; Darktrace was building some impeccable cyberspook credentials. "A combination of maths from Cambridge with the credibility of GCHQ and MI5 is unmatched," says Eagan, who took over from France as CEO of Darktrace.
Names such as Evans's certainly helped, but whispers about Darktrace's technology were the biggest enticement for security officials. Jim Penrose joined the NSA in 1997 – "when it was in low-profile mode" – and worked in cyberexploitation, that is, supporting counterterrorism operations with digital espionage. He heard about Darktrace through contacts at GCHQ and started to try and find out if the product did everything it promised. "And I convinced myself that, yeah, it does, and that's pretty cool," he says. "I thought, this is going to be a game changer for the cybersecurity industry." https://www.wired.com/story/darktrace-mike-lynch/
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