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Jussi Väisänen

@jussivaisanen.bsky.social

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Work @ Oulu University of Applied Sciences - for fun SF and making music with electronic boxes that go beep

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

🚨 Coristine was involved with “The Com” (likely where he came to law enforcement attention, as reported by Bloomberg upthread):
krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen...

“The Com” is a CYBERCRIME network with connections to child sexual exploitation:
cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-...

h/t @dell.bsky.social

krebsonsecurity.com
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.

cyberscoop.com
CYBERSCOOP
he child sextortion group 764 and
" the global collective of loosely associated groups known as "The
Com" are using tools and techniques normally used for
financially motivated cybercrime tactics - such as SIM swapping, IP grabbing and social engineering — to commit violent crimes, according to exclusive law enforcement and intelligence reports reviewed by CyberScoop.
The reports offer insight into the underbelly of the global network, showing how they are using traditional cybercriminal tools to identify, target, groom, extort, and cause physical and psychological harm to victims as young as 10. They were shared with police nationwide and in some cases, with foreign-allied governments.

February 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win

@planetoffinks.bsky.social

remember that whole story about how ChatGPT aced the bar exam? Oops! OpenAI 100% just lied about that. It didn't happen. Oopsie! www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/o...