A staff member from the controversial U.S. Department of Government Efficiency once operated network services firm DiamondCDN, which worked with the EGodly cybercrime ring.
According to Reuters, Edward Coristine worked with the cybercrime ring just two years before being appointed to the Elon Musk-led agency, who are tasked with downsizing the federal government.
Internet protocol addresses leveraged by EGodly's "dataleak[.]fun" website from October 2022 to June 2023 were linked to DiamondCDN and other organisations owned by Coristine, according to digital records obtained by DomainTools and Any.Run.
The cybercrime ring also thanked DiamondCDN for its "DDoS protection and caching systems" in a Telegram message.
Such a connection between Coristine and EGodly has raised alarms for former CISA Deputy Director Nitin Nataranjan. "This stuff was not in the distant past. The recency of the activity and the types of groups he was associated would definitely be concerning," said Nataranjan.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
