Red Piranha, a cyber security start-up founded by a former member of activist hacking group Anonymous, has raised $2.5 million from high net worth investors with the help of Sydney-based stockbroker Canary Capital.
Investors including EatClub and Corporate Travel Management co-founder Matt Cantelo have thrown their support behind Adam Bennett’s venture, which has created a “unified threat management” platform for small-and-medium sized businesses called Crystal Eye.
Mr Bennett was given a two-year suspended prison sentence and 200 hours of community service, as well as an intensive supervision order, for offences that occurred in 2012 as part of the global Guy Fawkes Night campaign organised by Anonymous.
Speaking to The Australian Financial Review, he said he had been hacking since he was a child and had always been interested in cyber security.
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