Drop what you are doing and read this incredible story from Wired, if you can. After that, come back here.
https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/
It mentions that a 19 y/o man who's assisting Musk's team and who has access to sensitive government systems is Edward Coristine. Wired said Coristine, who apparently goes by the nickname "Big Balls," runs a number of companies, including one called Tesla.Sexy LLC
"Tesla.Sexy controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. 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 review."
The really interesting part for me is Coristine's work history at a company called Path Networks, which Wired describes generously as a company "known for hiring reformed black-hat hackers."
"At Path Network, Coristine worked as a systems engineer from April to June of 2022, according to his now-deleted LinkedIn resume. Path has at times listed as employees Eric Taylor, also known as Cosmo the God, a well-known 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. It’s 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 company."
The 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 co-founded called BackConnect LLC. Working with Doug Madory, we determined that BackConnect had a long history of hijacking Internet address space that it didn't own.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/ddos-mitigation-firm-has-history-of-hijacks/
Incidentally, less than 24 hours after that story ran, my site KrebsOnSecurity.com was hit with the biggest DDoS attack the Internet had ever seen at the time. That sustained attack kept my site offline for nearly 4 days.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/krebsonsecurity-hit-with-record-ddos/
Here's the real story behind why Coristine only worked at Path for a few months. He was fired after Webb accused him of making it known that one of Path's employees was Curtis Gervais, a serial swatter from Canada who was convicted of perpetrating dozens of swattings and bomb threats -- including at least two attempts on our home in 2014. [BTW the aforementioned Eric Taylor was convicted of a separate (successful) swatting against our home in 2013.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/canadian-man-gets-9-months-detention-for-serial-swattings-bomb-threats/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/men-who-sent-swat-team-heroin-to-my-home-sentenced/
In the screenshot here, we can see Webb replying to a message from Gervais stating that "Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors."
Wired cited experts saying it's unlikely Coristine could have passed a security clearance needed to view the sensitive government information he now has access to.
Want to learn more about Path? Check out the website https://pathtruths.com/
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Oh, and the other founder of the DDoS protection company BackConnect is a guy named Tucker Preston, who in 2020 pleaded guilty to paying a DDoS-for-hire service to launch attacks against others.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/ddos-mitigation-firm-founder-admits-to-ddos/
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I almost forgot this detail about about the other Path employee, Eric Taylor: He was involved in a website called Exposed[.]su, which hard doxed a ton of celebrities and people working in top government jobs, including the FBI director, the First Lady, and others.
Taylor was part of a crew that would alert TMZ when they were about to dox and then swat a celebrity, so that cameras could be on the scene when the police arrived in force.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/credit-reports-sold-for-cheap-in-the-underweb/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/04/swatting-incidents-tied-to-id-theft-sites/
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@briankrebs Thanks for putting it up here.
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I cannot boost this hard enough.
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Let's quote the American President here: Boost, boost boost! [¹]
[¹] Hm. Somehow this quote seems wrong. Whatever. Boost!
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@briankrebs so this whole op is just musk trying to impress his gamer bros with his rented hacker cred. cool, cool.
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Musk hiring people with dubious past... Why is this a surprise to anyone, considering everything that's happened in the last couple of weeks ?
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@briankrebs holy crap. I wish I read this before I called my congressperson.
Brian, can you please consider posting this on your site? I want something official to point to when contacting my reps.
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@kevinmirsky working on it
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@briankrebs Unsurprising.
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@briankrebs a #techbro doing crime? Now #trump will say nothing wrong, just building customer demand
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@briankrebs this is like a story straight out of Darknet Diaries. Where is Jack Rhysyder?
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@briankrebs https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113957584071579030
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@briankrebs sorry to say, but it is too late to expect any rules to be followed.
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@briankrebs The terrorists are literally "in the cockpit" here
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@briankrebs
I would like to direct the world's attention to man by the name of Nikita Khrushchev who was quote in 1956 as saying----------
"We will take America without firing a shot ... we will bury you!
"We can't expect the American people to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have communism. We do not have to invade the United States, we
will destroy you from within."
IT TOOK SEVENTY YEARS FOR NIKITA KHRUSHCEV TO GET HIS PLAN COMPLETED.
They ARE destroying us from the INSIDE OUT.
They planted TRUMP AS THE TROJAN HORSE
THEY ARE DESTROYING US FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
It really is quite simple. This is was and always will be RUSSIAS plan and they finally got the world leaders to realize its better to be rich that dead.
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@LaNaehForaday @briankrebs This is not Socialism or Communism, but then again, neither is Russia now. It's an Oligarchy.
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I find it interesting that these dots are finally getting connected after years of basically knowing this was the case without hard proof.
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@briankrebs interesting, thanks for the share. Also odd wording in that screenshot. "Liquidated"??? Never heard that term for firing someone
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@briankrebs I don't know. I think maybe the flag flying outside the state department upside down yesterday was someone putting it up there for exactly the reason someone at the state department would.
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@briankrebs #AdolfMusk and the #MuskYouth modelled on the youth organization of the Nazi party in Germany control Americans. #HitlerYouth was the sole official boys youth organization in Germany, and it was a paramilitary organization. In 1945, the #HitlerYouth and its subordinate units were outlawed by the allied council along with other Nazi party organizations. It was labelled an unconstitutional organization. Sound familiar USA?
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@briankrebs Worth encouraging people to spend $12 for a subscription
https://www.wired.com/v2/offers/wir307
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@briankrebs Paywall
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@spamned someone has uploaded it to archive[.]today, as is often the case
https://archive.ph/VAD48
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@briankrebs thanks ")
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@spamned https://gitflic.ru/user/magnolia1234 paywall remover
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@mathew A browser extension coming from Russia, you can't be serious!! 🕵️ I'd rather pay Western journalists to uncover connections to Russia.😉 @spamned@mastodon.social
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@NatureMC Russia is not my enemy
neither is China
Read a book or something
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@spamned I didn't talk to you but to Mathew proposing a Russian browser extension.
[#]DataSecurity
I'm going to read my book, toodles!
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Ok
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@briankrebs i can't believe in how many layers of banana republic we are into already, yet the recursion keeps going. It is disheartening, but we have all to be the adults in the room and silently move things back towards sanity again.
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Oh, we're not gonna be silent about it at all.
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@briankrebs that tracks. I was flipping through channels a few weeks ago and paused on TMZ for a few minutes. They were ecstatic about Trump getting elected.
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@briankrebs So they are criminals.
Shocking. Let me get my big boy pants.
You should probably let the Felon-in-Chief know, you know the only person who possibly could do something to fix that.
Trump45 would probably not pass the background checks for the security clearance for the job of the POTUS.
Trump47 almost certainly does not pass.
So I think they stopped the practice in this administration.
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@briankrebs What is the bracket around the period for?
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@anselmschueler it's to defang the domain (make it not easily clickable)
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I see. My client doesn't make bare domains clickable, I think.
Just wait though for some stupid application that uses some LLM to generate clickable links to topics…
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I have words..
None of them printable.
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@xdydx are they more scream or gutteral?
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They are foul. Just foul.
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I think I have the perfect image for this situation:
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It's a start!
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@briankrebs Looking forward to comprehensive reporting on this. Great work Brian.
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@briankrebs .su domain is a red flag on its own
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@briankrebs wtf, that's scummier than scummy, that's concentrated municipal waste.
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So a bunch of people which have absolutely no business being anywhere near critical national infrastructure 🫤🤦♂️
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@briankrebs thank you for your service :blobsalute:
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"Wired cited experts saying it's unlikely Coristine could have passed a security clearance"
The only question on the current security clearance form seems to me to be:
Do you swear absolute fealty until death to the new Christian America Empire? Y/n.
And in small script: You hereby donate your body after or during death, or at any other designated moment, to Brainlink or any other Musk medical experiment. Also you submit unreservedly to any judgments of the Dept. of Inquisition.
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@briankrebs @GottaLaff
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I posted that hours ago, thank you.
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@briankrebs It's getting so much worse every day oof..
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@stux @briankrebs I feel like, in hindsight, I was invited to exactly the right Mastodon instance cc @jerry
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@codinghorror @stux @briankrebs :blobheartcat:
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@jerry @codinghorror @briankrebs Let's say the right network 🤝 :fediverse: :blobcathearts:
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@briankrebs
Archive link for anyone who needs it
http://archive.today/VAD48
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@briankrebs I paid the $12 for both digital and print. Thanks for sharing
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@briankrebs so can we just call DOGE Disciples of Greedy Elon or something.
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@briankrebs Sorry, as great the job is that you are doing, but in the context that #Trump & Co are currently shredding the Constitution and are basically trying out how far they can go with establishing a "Führerstaat" (leader state) without the rule of law, where #Trump can simply change the "constitution" via an EO (the Nazis called these "Führererlass" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrererlass ) makes it not THAT exciting.
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@briankrebs I regret that I have but one repost to give.
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