Short: According to a new report, Elon Musk’s Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) team consists of a member, once provided technical assistance to the cyber crime gang. Edward Coristine, 19, is often known by his surname of “Big Balls”, already a colorful history, other reports claimed that he is the grandson of a KGB detective.
According to records reviewed by Reuters, Coristine launched a company called DiamondsDN, which provided network services from about 2022, while it was still in high school. Its users had a website operated by a ring of cyber criminals, which works as “Egodali”.
Egodly thanked DiamondcDN for providing it with DDOS protection and cashing system in February 2023, given that the company of Coristine helped safely host it and protect your website, DATALEAK.FUN.
Personally, I voted for big balls
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 7 February, 2025
The same year, Egodli proud of his Telegram channel that he had kidnapped the phone numbers, broke into law enforcement email accounts in Latin America, and stole a cryptocurrency. It also distributed individual details of an FBI agent, which was examining the group, including his phone number and pictures of his house on Telegram.
Now the retired FBI agent told the Reuters that its connection was being investigated for the incidents being investigated by the group. “These are bad people,” said the former agent. “They are not a pleasant group.”
A cyber security researcher said that Agodali was made of harsh fraud.
Nitin Natarajan, who served as Deputy Director of CISA under the former President Joe Biden, told the Reuters that it belonged to someone who served to cyber criminal services, now had access to sensitive government networks.
When he was 16 years old, in 2021, Coristine founded the Tesla.Sxy LLC. The company controls dozens of web domains, which includes at least two Russian-managed domains, one of which is a bot for the Russian market targeted discord server, writes wired.
According to journalist Jacob Silverman, the great -grandfather of Koristine worked for KGB during the Cold War. Valerie Fedorovic Martinov was admitted by FBI to pass Soviet Intelligence in the US in 1982, but he was eventually discovered by KGB Counterance Officer Victor Charkashin and executed as a traitor.
Corestin was fired from a cyber security internship last year to leak internal information allegedly for an opponent. He was also accused of often confusing with telegram and dysord communities associated with cybercrime.
The background of Coristine has questioned some inquiries for Dogi staff, and whether any background was investigated.