Frank cuts in budgets, agency closings, massive layoffs, the famous Doge (Department of Government Efficiency or Department of Government Effectiveness) set up to reduce federal spending in the United States has been talking a lot about it since its inception.
Piloted by Elon Musk, the organization which promised $ 2,000 billion in the federal budget is very far from the account, with only 150 billion announced. But it is above all the method used by the Musk teams that is talked about. During an intervention in an administration, Doge agents access all data, even the most sensitive to analyze it. And precisely, something happened as strange as they are worrying during a visit to the headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). This agency takes care of complaints linked to illegal practices in the world of work and, precisely, it must have been overcome in many times with Musk due to abusive layoffs and the ban for employees of SpaceXSpaceX to unionize.
However, according to Daniel Berulis, a launcherlauncher alert that delivered information to public radio NPRthe attitude of the Doge agents was rather strange during their visit to the NLRB. After obtaining access to sensitive and confidential information that is not supposed to enter the scope of the organization’s skills, they tried to erase all their traces of connection like what hackers can do. During their manipulations, they even disabled the agency’s cybersecurity systems. But above all, a few minutes later, the IT computer scientists detected a massive data leak and suspicious connection attempts from an IP address located in Russia.
-Foreign interference?
To infiltrate, the hackers have exploited an account which had precisely been created by the DOGE for the occasion. These hackers therefore had the identifier and password of this account and everything seems to have been perfectly synchronized for this leak to take place. Even if a Russian IP address does not necessarily mean that they are Russian pirates behind manipulation, the sophisticated method strongly resembles their practice.
But, Daniel Berulis has also just launched a new bomb after his first revelations to the press. He explained that when they were present on site and they disabled network security, DOGE engineers were at the same time connected to the Starlink network ofElon MuskElon Musk. A network that has just been banished by the US Department of Defense because it considers it a “direct bridge” to Russia. Foreign interference? Sensitive data collection for Elon Musk to help his own interests? Mixture of the two? Difficult to see clearly on what happened, but the Doge method questions.
In any case, the authorities do not have theairair to react to this huge security flaw. An indication still indicates that it is not amateurism. When he explained the internal situation, the whistleblower very quickly received threats and elements showing that he was monitored in his daily life.
