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Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-staffer-big-balls-provided-tech-support-cybercrime-ring-records-show-2025-03-26/
Reuters has a good follow on some of the reporting about Edward Coristine, a teenage DOGE staffer with years-long connections to the English-language cybercrime community known as the Com.
The story says Coristine ran a website operated by a group calling itself "EGodly":
"In 2023, EGodly boasted on its Telegram channel of hijacking phone numbers, breaking into unspecified law enforcement email accounts in Latin America and Eastern Europe, and cryptocurrency theft. Early that year, the group distributed the personal details of an FBI agent who they said was investigating them, circulating his phone number, photographs of his house, and other private details on Telegram.
EGodly also posted an audio recording of an obscene prank call made to the agent's phone and a video, shot from the inside of a car, of an unknown party driving by the agent's house in Wilmington, Delaware at night and screaming out the window, "EGodly says you're a bitch!"
"Reuters could not independently verify EGodly's boasts of cybercriminal activity, including its claims to have hijacked phone numbers or infiltrated law enforcement emails. But it was able to authenticate the video by visiting the same Wilmington address and comparing the building to the one in the footage."
"The FBI agent targeted by EGodly, who is now retired, told Reuters that the group had drawn law enforcement attention because of its connection to swatting, the dangerous practice of making hoax emergency calls to send armed officers swarming targeted addresses. The agent didn't go into detail. Reuters is not identifying him out of concern for further harassment."
"These are bad folks," the former agent said. "They're not a pleasant group."
My reporting on Coristine ties to the Com:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/
Here's this month's SCW Q&A, in which we answer your questions about weather, climate and the way things work around here. This time around: Is it getting warmer sooner? What's with the signals? Why so gray? Is NOAA in danger? And what we have here is a failure to communicate. Unfortunately.
@mpjgregoire well phrased about President Trump having "some conservative policies." It's always struck me as odd that people try to label him a conservative when on the vast majority of matters, he's rejected what would normally be considered "conservative."
Hunderte Fußgängerïnnen sterben jährlich im Straßenverkehr – und es werden immer mehr. Bisherige Strategien reichen nicht aus, um Fußgängerïnnen zu schützen. Es braucht daher ein Umdenken in der #Verkehrsplanung, meint die Unfallforscherin Kirstin Zeidler. @anreidl #mobilität #auto #verkehr https://www.riffreporter.de/de/gesellschaft/verkehrssicherheit-fussgaenger-unfallpraevention-stadtverkehr-schutz
I'm thinking of running a #FediForum session next week on:
Funding the open social web
It appears to cost about $1 / month / user to run a social network, based on public company numbers. (Counting volunteer labor as a donation at market prices.)
If we want the Fediverse to go from its current user numbers to 10x or 100x, and make it possible for most of humanity to get off the toxic platforms, we need to find those 10x or 100x or 1000x resources somehow. Let's brainstorm.
@chartier "Do I fucking look like Freddie Mercury or David Bowie" hasn't netted me many offers, maybe this strategy is worth a try
The Avengers are assembling once again. Marvel is announcing the cast of “Avengers: Doomsday” in a livestream on YouTube and its social media channels, using a hashtag for the film’s title. @Variety reports:
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/avengers-doomsday-cast-1235364637/
