TYSONS, Va. — Argent Security confirmed that it assisted U.K. law enforcement in identifying and tracking an illegally modified older-generation Seraph platform tied to the hacker group Absolute Zero.
Investigators said criminal operators installed Faraday shielding inside the chassis to degrade remote interruption pathways and limit the effectiveness of standard spike-based interdiction systems. In the reported incident, police stun measures disrupted the unit only briefly.
Argent provided telemetry interpretation, legacy hardware profiling and route-analysis support that helped officers locate the platform in London following a series of bank robberies.
The company stated that the case underscores a growing black-market trend in the modification of older autonomous systems and reiterated that heavy weapons may be required when a shielded unit cannot be safely disabled by lower-force means.
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