Doge now has access to the top agency of US cyber security

Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old engineer at Elon Musks so-called Efficiency of the government’s Ministry (Doge) known as “big balls”, is now an employee of the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency (CISA), which has confirmed WIRED. He is accompanied by another member of the Doge team, the 38-year-old software engineer Kyle Schutt, who, according to a state source, is currently also in the CISA employee.

The CISA referred to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the components of which are a comment. DHS did not immediately answer a request for comment.

Coristine-Braueril an intern for Musks Brain-Computer interface company Neuralink, AS WIRED has reported-Since January, numerous federal authorities and departments have worked as a Doge operator since January. He was persecuted General Services Administration (GSA), the Office for personnel managementThe Foreign MinistryAnd Fema. At the State Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, he might have had access to systems with sensitive information about diplomats and many sources and spies around the world that provide the US government intelligence and specialist knowledge.

How the journalist Marisa Kabas was first reportHe has now moved to Cisa, a department of DHS. He is listed as a senior consultant in Staff Directory.

A second Doge worker, rubble, also joined Coristine at Cisa. Rap Reports Was also at the GSA. Before working with Doge, he worked at the start of von von WonA donation platform for Republicans, which the party collected at 1.8 billion US dollars in the 2024 election campaigns.

It is not yet clear which access level Coristine has for data and networks of CISA, but the agency, which is responsible for the defense of the federal government’s network -governing networks and works closely with critical infrastructure owners across the country, stores a lot of sensitive and sensitive and stores And critical security information in his networks deals with critical infrastructure owners. This includes information on security gaps in software, violations and network revales for local and state voting agencies. Since 2018, CISA has contributed state and local electoral offices across the country to evaluate the weaknesses in their networks and to secure them. CISA also works with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency to inform victims of violations and processing of information about software weak spots before the information becomes public.

Coristine, as Wired has previously reportedWorked in 2022 for Path Network, a network monitoring company that is known for the setting of Reformed Blackhat Hackers. According to the security journalist Brian Krebs, an account was also associated with him previously linked With a loosely shaped cyber criminal community, which is known as COM, whose members have been responsible for various hacking operations in recent years, including the hack of numerous snowflake. Coristine was not associated with the violations of the snowflakes, but as reported with WIRED, an account seemed to be associated with it started to start extensive traffic in a domain to deactivate it and prevent legitimate traffic. Cancer also reported that Path Coristine had supposedly fired Need internal company documents to a competitor.

The Washington Post Registered last week This corist was assigned to the DHS as a senior advisor, but did not indicate which part of the extensive agency he had joined.

“What does it bring to combat cybercrime if we only allow people with cybercriminal gangs to access government networks?” says a cyber security researcher who pursues cybercriminal groups.