Edward Cristine, a 19 -year -old engineer with the so -called Elon Musk Efficiency of the Ministry of the Government (Doge) Known as big balls, Currently in the staff at the Infrastructure and Cyber Security Agency (CISA), Wired has confirmed. He was involved by another member of the Doge group, 38 -year -old software engineer Kyle Schutt, who currently belongs to CISA's employee, according to a government source.
CISA has transferred to the Ministry of Security (DHS), which is a component agency, when making a comment. DHS did not respond immediately to the comment.
Cristine-all is a trainee for Musk's brain computer interface company, Neuralink, like Wired reportedSome people have worked in their own ways through many federal agencies and departments as a DOGO employee since January. He has been monitored in General service management (GSA), The Human Resources Management OfficeThe Foreign officeAnd Fema. At the state's diplomatic technology department, he is able to access sensitive information systems about diplomats and many sources and spies around the world, who supply to the US government about Tri. Smart and professional.
Like journalist Marisa Kabas First to reportNow he moved to CISA, a part of DHS. He was listed in an employee directory as a senior adviser.
A second Doge worker, Schutt, also participated in Cisa. Schutt has reported Also in GSA. Before working with Doge, he worked in debut WinredA fundraising foundation for the Republicans helped the Party increase $ 1.8 billion in election campaigns in 2024.
It is still unclear Cristine's access to data and networks at CISA, but the agency is responsible for protecting the Civil Federal Government networks and working closely with owners. Important infrastructure across the country, storing a lot of sensitivity and important security information online. This includes information about software gaps, violations and network risk assessments made for local and state election offices. Since 2018, CISA has helped state and local election offices across the country to evaluate holes in their networks and help protect them. CISA also works with the Federal Investigation Department and the National Security Agency to notify the victims about violations and process information about software gaps before the information is public.
Cristine, like Wired has Previously reportedWorking briefly in 2022 for Path Network, a network monitoring company known for hiring reform Blackkhat hackers. According to the security journalist Brian Krebs, an account that was once associated with him Being linked before With a loose cyber criminal community called com, the members have been responsible for different hacking activities over the past few years, including hacking multiple snow accounts. Cristine was not associated with snow violations, but as Wired reported, an account related to him seemed to show that the owner of the account was seeking help to conduct a ton. The dispersed service, a criminal technique related to the launch of widely traffic in a domain to disable it and prevent legal traffic in reaching it. Krebs also reported that Path has fired Cascine for allegedly Leak documents of the company For a competitor.
The Washington Post Report last week That Cristine was assigned to DHS as a senior adviser, but did not tell which part of the sprawling agency he had participated in.
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