The guy who previously was fired for cyber espionage now officially works in government agency with access to US intelligence on worldwide cyberthreats.
DOGE employee Edward Coristine lands at CISA with DHS email – A handle dubbed “Rivage” was reportedly tied to Coristine, and used to discuss and solicit hacking activities with a cybercrime syndicate known as The Com. By David DiMolfetta February 19, 2025 07:03 PM ET In conversations with the cybercrime community, he allegedly used the handle “Rivage” and frequented interaction hubs that facilitated hacking activities. Coristine was fired from a company, Path Networks, after leaking internal firm secrets to a competitor, Krebs and Bloomberg News also reported. The decision to place Coristine in CISA means he is now embedded in an agency that contains U.S. intelligence on worldwide cyber threats. In early February, Wired reported that a Telegram handle linked to Coristine had solicited a hacking service in 2022. The payload requested was a distributed denial-of-service attack, used to overwhelm a server with bot traffic that causes it to crash.