Alisa Shevchenko denies she aided election hackers

Young, female and a hacker would be excellent cover for a foreign power to nudge to do their patriotic duty. Deniability even better.

“We have not only searched for bugs but exploited them, but only with the customer’s sanction,”

Taken out of context, but imagine if the customer is a nation state?

"Shevchenko specialises in finding so-called “zero-days”"

In Intel. circles, a deniable asset is called a ^Kite^.