Teen on Musks DOGE Team Graduated from The Com Krebs on Security

pWired reported this week that a 19yearold working for Elon Musks socalled Department of Government Efficiency DOGE was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so As todays story explores the DOGE teen is a former denizen of The Com an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaborationppSince President Trumps second inauguration Musks DOGE team has gained access to a truly staggering amount of personal and sensitive data on American citizens moving quickly to seize control over databases at the US Treasury the Office of Personnel Management the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Resources among othersppWired first reported on Feb 2 that one of the technologists on Musks crew is a 19yearold high school graduate named Edward Coristine who reportedly goes by the nickname Big Balls online One of the companies Coristine founded TeslaSexy LLC was set up in 2021 when he would have been around 16 years oldppTeslaSexy LLC controls dozens of web domains including at least two Russianregistered domains Wired reported One of those domains which is still active offers a service called Helfie which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market While the operation of a Russian website would not violate US sanctions preventing Americans doing business with Russian companies it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance reviewppMr Coristine has not responded to requests for comment In a followup story this week Wired found that someone using a Telegram handle tied to Coristine solicited a DDoSforhire service in 2022 and that he worked for a short time at a company that specializes in protecting customers from DDoS attacksppA profile photo from Coristines WhatsApp accountppInternet routing records show that Coristine runs an Internet service provider called Packetware AS400495 Also known as DiamondCDN Packetware currently hosts teslasexy and diamondcdncom among other domainsppDiamondCDN was advertised and claimed by someone who used the nickname Rivage on several Combased Discord channels over the years A review of chat logs from some of those channels show other members frequently referred to Rivage as EdwardppFrom late 2020 to late 2024 Rivages conversations would show up in multiple Com chat servers that are closely monitored by security companies In November 2022 Rivage could be seen requesting recommendations for a reliable and powerful DDoSforhire serviceppRivage made that request in the cybercrime channel Dstat a core Com hub where users could buy and sell attack services Dstats website dstatcc was seized in 2024 as part of Operation PowerOFF an international law enforcement action against DDoS servicesppCoristines LinkedIn profile said that in 2022 he worked at an antiDDoS company called Path Networks which Wired generously described as a network monitoring firm known for hiring reformed blackhat hackers Wired wroteppAt Path Network Coristine worked as a systems engineer from April to June of 2022 according to his nowdeleted LinkedIn résumé Path has at times listed as employees Eric Taylor also known as Cosmo the God a wellknown former cybercriminal and member of the hacker group UGNazis as well as Matthew Flannery an Australian convicted hacker whom police allege was a member of the hacker group LulzSec Its unclear whether Coristine worked at Path concurrently with those hackers and WIRED found no evidence that either Coristine or other Path employees engaged in illegal activity while at the companyppThe founder of Path is a young man named Marshal Webb I wrote about Webb back in 2016 in a story about a DDoS defense company he cofounded called BackConnect Security LLC On September 20 2016 KrebsOnSecurity published data showing that the company had a history of hijacking Internet address space that belonged to othersppLess than 24 hours after that story ran KrebsOnSecuritycom was hit with the biggest DDoS attack the Internet had ever seen at the time That sustained attack kept this site offline for nearly 4 daysppThe other founder of BackConnect Security LLC was Tucker Preston a Georgia man who pleaded guilty in 2020 to paying a DDoSforhire service to launch attacks against othersppThe aforementioned Path employee Eric Taylor pleaded guilty in 2017 to charges including an attack on our home in 2013 Taylor was among several men involved in making a false report to my local police department about a supposed hostage situation at our residence in Virginia In response a heavilyarmed police force surrounded my home and put me in handcuffs at gunpoint before the police realized it was all a dangerous hoax known as swattingppCosmoTheGod rocketed to Internet infamy in 2013 when he and a number of other hackers set up the Web site exposeddotsu which doxed dozens of public officials and celebrities by publishing the address Social Security numbers and other personal information on the former First Lady Michelle Obama the thendirector of the FBI and the US attorney general among others The group also swatted many of the people they doxedppWired noted that Coristine only worked at Path for a few months in 2022 but the story didnt mention why his tenure was so short A screenshot shared on the website pathtruthscom includes a snippet of conversations in June 2022 between Path employees discussing Coristines firingppAccording to that record Path founder Marshal Webb dismissed Coristine for leaking internal documents to a competitor Not long after Coristines termination someone leaked an abundance of internal Path documents and conversations Among other things those chats revealed that one of Paths technicians was a Canadian man named Curtis Gervais who was convicted in 2017 of perpetrating dozens of swatting attacks and fake bomb threats including at least two attempts against our home in 2014ppA snippet of text from an internal Path chat room wherein members discuss the reason for Coristines termination Allegedly leaking internal company information Source PathtruthscomppppOn May 11 2024 Rivage posted on a Discord channel for a DDoS protection service that is chiefly marketed to members of The Com Rivage expressed frustration with his time spent on Combased communities suggesting that its profitability had been oversoldppI dont think theres a lot of money to be made in the com Rivage lamented Im not buying Heztner servers to set up some com VPNppRivage largely stopped posting messages on Com channels after that Wired reports that Coristine subsequently spent three months last summer working at Neuralink Elon Musks brain implant startupppThe trouble with all this is that even if someone sincerely intends to exit The Com after years of consorting with cybercriminals they are often still subject to personal attacks harassment and hacking long after they have left the sceneppThats because a huge part of Com culture involves harassing swatting and hacking other members of the community These internecine attacks are often for financial gain but just as frequently they are perpetrated by cybercrime groups to exact retribution from or assert dominance over rival gangsppExperts say it is extremely difficult for former members of violent street gangs to gain a security clearance needed to view sensitive or classified information held by the US government Thats because exgang members are highly susceptible to extortion and coercion from current members of the same gang and that alone presents an unacceptable security risk for intelligence agenciesppAnd make no mistake The Com is the Englishlanguage cybercriminal hacking equivalent of a violent street gang KrebsOnSecurity has published numerous stories detailing how feuds within the community periodically spill over into realworld violenceppWhen Coristines name surfaced in Wireds report this week members of The Com immediately took notice In the following segment from a February 5 2025 chat in a Comaffiliated hosting provider members criticized Rivages skills and discussed harassing his family and notifying authorities about incriminating accusations that may or may not be truepp20250205 162944 UTC vperked0 they got this nigga on indiatimes man
20250205 162946 UTC alexaloo0 Their cropping is worse than AI could have done
20250205 162948 UTC hebeatsme0 bro who is that
20250205 162953 UTC hebeatsme0 yalla re talking about
20250205 162956 UTC xewdy0 edward
20250205 162956 UTC yarrb0 rivagew
20250205 162957 UTC vperked0 Rivarge
20250205 162957 UTC xewdy0 diamondcdm
20250205 162959 UTC vperked0 i cant spell it
20250205 163000 UTC hebeatsme0 rivage
20250205 163008 UTC yarrb0 yes
20250205 163014 UTC hebeatsme0 i have him added
20250205 163020 UTC hebeatsme0 hes on discord still
20250205 163047 UTC yarrb0 hes focused on stroking zaddy elon
20250205 163047 UTC vperked0 httpsenwikipediaorgwikiEdwardCoristine
20250205 163050 UTC vperked0 no fucking way
20250205 163053 UTC vperked0 they even made a wiki for him
20250205 163055 UTC vperked0 LOOOL
20250205 163105 UTC hebeatsme0 no way
20250205 163108 UTC hebeatsme0 hes not a good dev either
20250205 163114 UTC hebeatsme0 like
20250205 163122 UTC hebeatsme0 has to be fake
20250205 163124 UTC xewdy0 and theyre saying ts
20250205 163129 UTC xewdy0 like ok bro
20250205 163151 UTC yarrb0 now i wanna know what all the other devs are like
20250205 163200 UTC vperked0 Coristine used the moniker bigballs on LinkedIn and Edwardbigballer on Twitter according to The Daily Dot
20250205 163205 UTC vperked0 LOL
20250205 163206 UTC hebeatsme0 lmfaooo
20250205 163207 UTC vperked0 bro
20250205 163210 UTC hebeatsme0 bro
20250205 163217 UTC hebeatsme0 has to be fake right
20250205 163222 UTC yarrb0 does it mention Rivage
20250205 163223 UTC xewdy0 He previously worked for NeuraLink a brain computer interface company led by Elon Musk
20250205 163226 UTC xewdy0 bro what
20250205 163227 UTC alexaloo0 I think your current occupation gives you a good insight of what probably goes on
20250205 163229 UTC hebeatsme0 bullshit man
20250205 163233 UTC xewdy0 this nigga got hella secrets
20250205 163237 UTC hebeatsme0 rivage couldnt print hello world
20250205 163242 UTC hebeatsme0 if his life was on the line
20250205 163250 UTC xewdy0 nigga worked for neuralink
20250205 163254 UTC hebeatsme0 bullshit
20250205 163306 UTC Nashville Dispatch 0000 PD Ping
20250205 163307 UTC hebeatsme0 must have killed all those test pigs with some bugs
20250205 163324 UTC hebeatsme0 ur telling me the rivage who failed to start a company
20250205 163328 UTC hebeatsme0 httpscdncamp
20250205 163332 UTC hebeatsme0 who didnt pay for servers
20250205 163334 UTC hebeatsme0
20250205 163342 UTC hebeatsme0 was too cheap
20250205 163344 UTC vperked0 yes
20250205 163350 UTC hebeatsme0 like
20250205 163353 UTC hebeatsme0 it aint adding up
20250205 163356 UTC alexaloo0 He just needed to find his calling idiot
20250205 163358 UTC alexaloo0 He found it
20250205 163359 UTC hebeatsme0 bro
20250205 163401 UTC alexaloo0 Cope in a river dude
20250205 163404 UTC hebeatsme0 he cant make good money right
20250205 163408 UTC hebeatsme0 doge is about efficiency
20250205 163411 UTC hebeatsme0 he should make 1he
20250205 163415 UTC hebeatsme0 1hr
20250205 163425 UTC hebeatsme0 and be whipped for better code
20250205 163426 UTC vperked0 prolly makes more than us
20250205 163435 UTC vperked0 with his dad too
20250205 163452 UTC hebeatsme0 time to report him for fraud
20250205 163454 UTC hebeatsme0 to donald trump
20250205 163504 UTC hebeatsme0 rivage participated in sim swap hacks in 2018
20250205 163508 UTC hebeatsme0 put that on his wiki
20250205 163510 UTC hebeatsme0 thanks
20250205 163515 UTC hebeatsme0 and in 2021
20250205 163517 UTC hebeatsme0 thanks
20250205 163519 UTC chainofcommand0 i dont think theyll care tbhppGiven the speed with which Musks DOGE team was allowed access to such critical government databases it strains credulity that Coristine could have been properly cleared beforehand After all hed recently been dismissed from a job for allegedly leaking internal company information to outsidersppAccording to the national security adjudication guidelines PDF released by the Director of National Intelligence DNI eligibility determinations take into account a persons stability trustworthiness reliability discretion character honesty judgment and ability to protect classified informationppThe DNI policy further states that eligibility for covered individuals shall be granted only when facts and circumstances indicate that eligibility is clearly consistent with the national security interests of the United States and any doubt shall be resolved in favor of national securityppOn Thursday 25yearold DOGE staff member Marko Elez resigned after being linked to a deleted social media account that advocated racism and eugenics Elez resigned after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the accountppJust for the record I was racist before it was cool the account posted in July You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity the account wrote on X in September Normalize Indian hate the account wrote the same month in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon ValleyppElezs resignation came a day after the Department of Justice agreed to limit the number of DOGE employees who have access to federal payment systems The DOJ said access would be limited to two people Elez and Tom Krause the CEO of a company called Cloud Software GroupppEarlier today Musk said he planned to rehire Elez after President Trump and Vice President JD Vance reportedly endorsed the idea Speaking at The White House today Trump said he wasnt concerned about the security of personal information and other data accessed by DOGE adding that he was very proud of the job that this group of young people are doingppA White House official told Reuters on Wednesday that Musk and his engineers have appropriate security clearances and are operating in full compliance with federal law appropriate security clearances and as employees of the relevant agencies not as outside advisors or entitiesppNPR reports Trump added that his administrations costcutting efforts would soon turn to the Education Department and the Pentagon where he suggested without evidence that there could be trillions of dollars in wasted spending within the 675 trillion the federal government spent in fiscal year 2024ppGOP leaders in the Republicancontrolled House and Senate have largely shrugged about Musks ongoing efforts to seize control over federal databases dismantle agencies mandated by Congress freeze federal spending on a range of alreadyappropriated government programs and threaten workers with layoffsppMeanwhile multiple parties have sued to stop DOGEs activities ABC News says a federal judge was to rule today on whether DOGE should be blocked from accessing Department of Labor records following a lawsuit alleging Musks team sought to illegally access highly sensitive data including medical information from the federal governmentppAt least 13 state attorneys general say they plan to file a lawsuit to stop DOGE from accessing federal payment systems containing Americans sensitive personal information reports The Associated PressppReuters reported Thursday that the US Treasury Department had agreed not to give Musks team access to its payment systems while a judge is hearing arguments in a lawsuit by employee unions and retirees alleging Musk illegally searched those recordsppArs Technica writes that The Department of Education DoE was sued Friday by a California student association demanding an immediate stop to DOGEs unlawfully digging through student loan data to potentially dismantle the DoEpp
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