A group of 20-somethings with names like "Big Balls" gain unauthorized access to your servers, delete data, take your website down, and now you can't serve your customers and your organization goes belly up unless you pay money to a mafia boss.

Sounds a lot like ransomware, doesn't it? When your government starts imitating ransomware playbooks, it's a four-alarm fire. At least in theory one can negotiate with ransomware actors.

Here's another way the DOGE team is behaving like ransomware actors: Their strategy for taking over agency databases is to wait until the federal employees go home on Friday and then show up and work through the weekend to undermine federal security.

so what you’re saying is that #techbros own these ransomware groups and that’s why Elon has access to a whole conspiracy of them? that the joke about McAfee back in the day ―that he used to create the viruses attacking Windows OS and paid a cut to Gates― is true? that #techbros don’t make money selling software but with the vulnerabilities they create for committing the crimes that actually enrich them?

because from here it looks like that’s what Musk is exposing with DOGE.

@briankrebs

@blogdiva @briankrebs The techbros are boosting cryptocurrency, the whole business model of ransomware groups only works because of cryptocurrency…you may be on to something here.