Kevin Beaumont
A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He has high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code. Access granted as debt ceiling crisis looms, officials in charge of the area have resigned in protest.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/
Kevin Beaumont
For those wondering, he didn’t apply for a job - he was installed by DOGE, similar to USAID takeover.
Trump signed an executive order allowing DOGE to effectively do whatever it wants, so now you have Elon running around installing people.
Slayerranger/Crackamphetamine
@GossiTheDog With all of the issues from that CIO report, this is gonna age well. Trust me.
Kevin Beaumont
A 19 year old has been given admin access to the core US treasury financial system by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
He goes by the name of “Mr. Big Balls” online, is on Russian forums, and has tried to purchase DDoS botnets.
Elon has said sharing this information is illegal, so please do not press the boost button.
https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/
MeaTLoTioN
@GossiTheDog 19 year old? I thought he was 25 the other day? 😅
iStone
@GossiTheDog Ah shit I boosted. :ablobcatgrumpy:
Kevin Beaumont
Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems https://therecord.media/treasury-agrees-block-doge-access
Kevin Beaumont
One of the members of DOGE, 25 year old Marko Elez, has resigned after journalists reported on his X posts.
Examples: “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask”, “I was a racist before it was cool”, “Normalize Indian hate”.
He had tried to delete the posts. Elon tried threatening those reporting on it with legal action.
https://www.tpr.org/2025-02-06/member-of-elon-musks-doge-team-resigns-after-racist-posts-resurface
Kevin Beaumont
Journalists probably want to look through this guys tweets, too. https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/Gavin_Kliger (press the button for all content, Mastodon breaks the link).
Kevin Beaumont
ProRepublica is building a live list of those working for DOGE, since DOGE hasn’t actually disclosed this info and Elon keeps saying reporting it is illegal. Includes many InfoSec people. https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Børge
@GossiTheDog That does it. I've been thinking of subscribing to ProPublica, now I have to.
RaulV
@GossiTheDog where did you see that Elon is saying it's illegal?
Kevin Beaumont
Elon has decided to bring back the DOGE staffer who tweeted about being a racist, wanted to normalize Indian hate, and said he wants a eugenics immigration policy.
Kevin Beaumont
Elon Musk's guide to handling his staff being directly racist.
Kevin Beaumont
The US Treasury Department has put out a cyber threat intelligence briefing saying "Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even 'read only,' likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced." https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat/
Kevin Beaumont
One of the people in DOGE and given access to US government systems now is from the Telegram group The Com - known in cyber circles for swatting, doxxing, MFA abuse etc.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/
Kevin Beaumont
One of the people in DOGE is behind multiple cryptocurrency scams https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-crypto-grifters-of-doge
Kevin Beaumont
The tweets of the DOGE staff member who said he was a racist etc have been removed from archive.org after a takedown request.
Oliver Vanderb
"Either you take that record down or we seize your servers. Sincerly, Doge Team."
Kevin Beaumont
The employee who wrote the CTI assessment around DOGE has been terminated https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-08/treasury-warned-of-insider-threat-risk-from-musk-s-doge-access
Kevin Beaumont
A federal judge has ruled all DOGE Teenage Mutant Ninja Incels must stop accessing US Treasury data immediately, and destroy all copies they took. A case is running claiming Elon Musk broke federal law.
The ruling backs up the CTI assessment by the now fired US Treasury analyst. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw4g2q62xqo
Kevin Beaumont
President Musk has tweeted that the judge is “corrupt” and called for him to be “impeached now” and the Vice President has said federal judges shouldn’t have legal power.
Kevin Beaumont
If you start to see the US judiciary’s authority dismantled- they’re the final check on executive power - then you’re in the endgame to authoritarian rule.
It’s not there yet. But one to watch. The party of law and order may be the party who successfully disband it, it looks like they’re flirting with trying.
Kevin Beaumont
Remember Marko Elez, who wrote the "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.", “Normalize Indian hate” etc tweets, got a job at DOGE, and got given “read only” access to US Treasury systems?
It turns out he was given read/write access in error and it only noticed a day later. There’s a forensics operation going with his former laptop now (he resigned) to see what he did with the access as he was unsupervised.
https://therecord.media/treasury-fully-aware-of-risks-posed-by-doge-access-to-database
Kevin Beaumont
Also, a US lawmaker has filed to try to impeach the judge who stopped access.
Kevin Beaumont
Just for the record, JD Vance, the "kid" you are referring to here was 25 years old when he tweeted things like "Normalise Indian hate" last month.
Which you know.
Kevin Beaumont
On Friday one of DOGE’s staff members published a blog about why they joined DOGE, citing the worst people imaginable of course. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/doge-elon-musk-ron-unz-holocaust-substack-post-sailer-vdare-trump/
Kevin Beaumont
Of note - Elon hand picked a bunch of these people, and has been openly praising them on X (along with the US VP).
Kevin Beaumont
Christopher Stanley, former Senior Director for Security Engineering at X and Principal Security Engineer at SpaceX, who now serves as a Musk aide at DOGE with a White House role.
"Also known as Unh0ly, enKrypt, or Reneg4d3—the former owner of Error33[.]net, a warez and hacking forum, and theC0re, a video game cheating community. His 2011 personal website r00tyou[.]com prominently featured the n-word on the front page."
BlueSky thread:
https://bsky.app/profile/dogginglover.bsky.social/post/3lid446df4224
gwire
@GossiTheDog That “prominently featured word” part feels a bit misleading, as the site (as archived) looks to just be echoing back things visitors have typed.
Kevin Beaumont
Mr. Big Balls, who hung around in doxxing and DDoS channels, has been reinstated to DOGE and has been given access to CISA.
Kevin Beaumont
The White House is currently finding it difficult to fund its priorities due to the payments being denied by a 19 year old who goes by the name Mr. Big Balls online.
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