It is reported,

The 19-year-old Dodge employee Known as “big balls” online whose Grandpa was a kgb spyHe reports that he has led technical support for a cybercrime ring before taking work in Washington.

The real name of the big balls is Edward Coristine and, According to ReutersHe runs a company called Diamondcdn in 2022 while still in high school. Diamondcdn’s website is already a non -existent, but the Internet archive There is a copyS The service is assumed to protect customers from a distributed refusal from service attacks and claims that there is an “almost immediate reaction” when such attacks occurred.

Wired and Krebs on Security have previously reported the Coristine relationship with Diamondcdn, but Reuters have more details. One of Diamondcdn’s customers was a cybercrime ring called egodly. On Telegram, Egodly boasts cryptocurrency, kidnapping and doxxing a FBI agent. He even made phone calls to the FBI agent and posted an audio from him on Telegram.

In another telegram post, Egodly thanked Coristine’s Diamondcdn for his services. “We are expanding our gratitude to our valuable Diamondcdn partners for generously providing us with their incredible DDOS protection and cache systems that allow us to organize and protect our website safely,” says Ebursts in a Telegram publication, according to Reuters.

Coristine was previously linked to “com” of Krebs on SecurityS Com is a nebulent label for unorganized and decentralized digital youth criminal movement, organized on Discord and Telegram. Com is not one particular group, but more than a cultural movementS

Reuters does not explicitly associate Egodly and Diamondcdn with COM, but the activities described are in line with previous reporting on how they work. It is alleged that Ebbi posted a video shot by a car to someone driving to the FBI agent’s house while screaming “Erga says you’re a bitch” through the window. In the world of COM, participants tend to commit digital crimes and then boast of them in discord and telegram groups. The enemies of doxxing and the uncensural phone calls are common.

Krebs on Security and cable You both wrote about Diamondcdn and its connection to the online crime underground before. When Coristine was 16, he founded a company called Tesla.sexy LLC, which controls dozens of web domains, including some that are registered in Russia. The links between the Corristian and the famous criminal gangs are numerous and complicated. Reuters’s story simply describes in detail the most.

Company -related violence is not limited to verbal and digital harassment. 404 Media reports how members of COM Sami movies Attacking the homes of rivals. Sometimes it’s as simple as you throw a brick through a window, but other times they shot buildings with pistols.

To make it clear, Coristine Edward “Big Balls” is not charged with street violence. But it has many links to the culture, communities and companies that participate in digital crime and commit street violence.

Elon Musk defended Korin in a post on X last month. “Big balls are great,” he said.