KrebsonSecurity Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com' February 7, 2025 Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today's story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of 'The Com,' an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.

Paging @badthingsdaily.bsky.social, is it bad if you discover that you’ve hired a member of the Com and given them access to your most sensitive data? Asking for a friend.

Potatosecurity Tabletop:

Your security vendor just mandated Return to Office. Sales, support, threat research, and detection engineering are facing mass resignations and layoffs.

You no longer have a rep in the company.

What do you do?
Cc @badthingsdaily.bsky.social

We need a @badthingsdaily.bsky.social entry for “your most senior advisors have invited a journalist to a signal chat they’re not supposed to have”

Your DNS registrar experienced a technical downtime at the exact moment your domains were to be renewed.
The domain you use for email is one such domain.

@badthingsdaily.bsky.social

#badthingsdaily A third-party "artificial intelligence agent" service has just performed edits to every .xlsx file on your Finance shared drive.
cc @badthingsdaily.bsky.social

Billing alerts for outbound data transfer have started going off in object storage where your backup databases are stored.

Happy Thanksgiving