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cocoa_sg
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Singapore296 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-18 17:57:41
June 18 2011 16:59 GMT
#1
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History of LulzSec:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec

Who is the th3j35t3r?

A hacker who decided enough was enough, when LulzSec DDoS'ed the CIA website, of all things, recently. His first tweet to them was a challenge:

@lulzsec - re: your last hit. Gloves off. Expect me. My silence is not an indication of weakness, as your mouth is an indication of yours.


What happened since then?

This hacker, we shall refer to him as "The Jester", first started a campaign against a fake twitter account impersonating as him, @real_j35t3r. After a series of elaborate email scams to fool him, by acting as a reporter interested in interviewing "The Jester", his operation came to a remarkable conclusion:

Source: https://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/if-ya-gonna-troll-do-it-right/

+ Show Spoiler +
"Here comes the really good stuff.

His ego fed, and his greed calling, our faker

actually totally INVOICED our trusty ‘Aneka’ via PAYPAL – his own paypal account! Not once, not twice but 3 times!

Awesome skillz Sonny.

This is just the first, there were 2 more, another for $10,000 and another for $3500 – that’s $23,500 our faker was hoping to make from pretending to be me – wow, and here is me making absolutely nothing day in day out.

Out of respect, for @real_j35t3r‘s clear mental disposition I have not included this loser’s full name or email address – he has clear and present issues. And I wish him all the best in getting that sorted out.

However, Casey, you just got PWNED and in the worst possible way, I didn’t even have to get all geek on you, you fell for a LOW-FI social engineering hit, and you claim to be all that too. You are a failure.

And just so you know I got you:

Here are 4 things I know about you (just 4 outta 5000).

1). You are moving to Florida in August, lets hope your new employer doesn’t realise what a cock you are?

2). You are 22 years old, way out of your depth, a self-proclaimed member of Anonymous (although that’s not why this has happened) and you graduated from Berkeley – Cognitive/Computer Science with a minor in Political Science.

3). You get your hair fixed at STUD CUTS, and ‘K’ is your favorite girl there.

4). YOU JUST GOT PWNED, BOY.



So here’s the conclusion:

I know your twitter names, I know the names you use on IRC, I know your real Identity and I know your MO – and if you ever darken my door again, I wont be so accommodating towards you. Go away. Everyone thinks you are a prick, except for the unfortunate people that think you are me. But now that’s over too.

Ps: Format your PC. Start Again. Or don’t, all the better for me.

And if you are still unsure?

‘ANEKA’ has one last thing to say. Right here.

Peace out.

J.

PS: Just exercising my right to ‘Freedom of speech’ blah blah blah


UPDATE 04/10/2011:

As you can see this dude was pretty much pwned , and I stress, in the worst possible way, a way that played to ego, and his willingness to make $23K under false pretences.

Since this post was originally posted, there have been a couple of developments, and for your perusal, I will keep you in the loop on those developments starting here:

1). The @real_jester twitter account has never tried to delve into personal relationships with others, as it was setup purely to troll the shit out of me. However, only hours after this blog post was published, the account suddenly decided to engage two random NYC residents – in an attempt to convince the folks of twitter that he lives in NYC – however he lives in Carlsbad, CA.

I was gonna do another screen grab – but he obviously deleted those tweets, as I dont see them now, my bad. However the upshot is he attempted to speak to to NYC randoms asking if they were gonna ‘crash his crib’ lol – hoping but failing – to divert attention.

2). And this is the important one. (and I have a grab this time.)

@real_jester decided to have a conversation with himself, in order to make it appear as if I had the wrong person fingered.

How so?

Its fairly pathetic, and totally transparent. But please note in my above post - I never posted his full name or email, and blurred his photo, out of respect for his apparent mental health issues.

BUT NEVERTHELESS THE DUMB ASS FOOL MANAGED TO SEAL IT – AND PWN HIMSELF!

here is the grab:

So how did he PWN himself?

Again I stress – I NEVER GAVE UP HIS TOTALLY IDENTIFYING INFO

HE PANICKED AND RAGE-PWND HIS OWN ASS

In a rage-fit – this troll, knowing he was rumbled, decided to try and call bluff, except it wasn’t a bluff, he was owned already, only he knew it tho, but he believed everyone knew it. And so posted his entire details in an attempt to bluff.

What’s the chances of a complete n00b like this getting the ID right unless it was actually him? Also please note the facebook page attached to @gardinerca twitter profile.

Furthermore:

Regular readers of my blog will be aware, I always start a blog post with a quote, right at the top (scroll up) – I opened this post with Casey’s favorite quote, from one of his many profiles online, only he would have recognized this, and made the link, he then freaked. I was trying to be gracious, let him know I have him, without releasing his dox. But in the end he released his own.

I never mentioned any phone numbers, and email addresses, any full names, and of Casey’s twitter accounts. But he did. Way to go noob troll. You pwned yourself.

And in closing. To ‘Anonymous’, this guy is representing you, it’s not the standard of people you need.

Also just FYI – He is AKA – NAKOMIS and NOAH etc etc on your ANONOPS IRC. He’s been great fun tho. He seems to require attention, but can’t distinguish between good attention and being ridiculed.

Peace.

J."


TLDR?

The Jester managed to make the fake impersonator give up his RL details, and reveal his connections to LulzSec itself.

He soon received a Pastebin link from an anonymous person, revealing even more details behind the "@real_j35t3r" account. What became known is this:

http://pastebin.com/5NJXfbVw

To verify the source, The Jester went on to unmask a YouTube video connecting Barrett Brown, Topiary and Sabu as part of LulzSec:



Since then, the @LulzSec twitter went quiet for 15 hours (and ongoing), as well as the @anonakomis twitter (the person who maintained the fake @real_j35t3r account).

Source: https://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/quick-n-dirty-just-for-clarification/

And now as a stunning conclusion to all this:

LulzSec got Dox'ed (not sure if all members have been revealed yet)

http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/

So far, Topiary, Nakomis, Barrett, JoePie, and Kayla had been exposed. We may see more members revealed in time to come. If this gets to the FBI's attention, shit may hit the fan.

My opinion?

Personally, I feel LulzSec has gone too far with their hacking antics. They may have exposed company security flaws, but personal information was leaked and bank accounts compromised (etc. Paypal details). Too many people got trapped in the crossfire.

No matter what their crusade for lulz was, there is a fine boundary between wanting to wreck havoc on the online community and acting as crusaders for the 'common good' or whatever they claim it to be.

Thanks to them, we can expect more stringent Internet regulations in the years to come, but until then, let's just hope LulzSec continues to stay quiet and do nothing else, now that members' details have come to light. =3
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Ansinjunger
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2451 Posts
June 18 2011 17:05 GMT
#2
I saw a meme they made in the paper when they hacked PBS. It said: "All your base are belong to Lulzsec." I was lol'ing at that at work and none of my coworkers got it.
optical630
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom768 Posts
June 18 2011 17:08 GMT
#3
So it took 1 caped crusader to shut down lulzsec?

disapoint
vyyye
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden3917 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-18 17:13:04
June 18 2011 17:08 GMT
#4
Yet they're still Tweeting. I'll start believing they're exposed when they disappear off the grid, be it in jail or simply become unheard of, they certainly have done enough to get jail time and I have no doubts that they're aware.

The damage is done anyway, more and more groups are starting to abuse security weaknesses ever since Sony got hacked. Guess it proved no one is safe. Problem with them is that they don't boast about their 'achievement', nor do they release the info they steal publicly. Just got an e-mail from Sega and they've had customer data stolen, I don't use a universal pass so I don't really mind but you can see the issue here.

I couldn't give less of a fuck about someone getting their info out and having their Facebook plastered with dicks, the "lulz" is generally not that harmful (exceptions apply). The thought of other groups keeping silent having information from X and Y worries me more.
HellRoxYa
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden1614 Posts
June 18 2011 17:10 GMT
#5
This is great. LulzSec did way too many things I don't agree with. Fighting for net neutrality and freedom of information, etc etc, is great but what they did is not.
Vinski
Profile Joined November 2010
505 Posts
June 18 2011 17:17 GMT
#6
On June 19 2011 02:08 optical630 wrote:
So it took 1 caped crusader to shut down lulzsec?

disapoint

you must realize the jester is a total boss. No one stops him since he always takes down the "bad guys". Supposably he has like some super base in sweden if I remember correctly. No one can take him down not even lulzsec. He's currently probably the best hacker around. He took down all the al-qaeda recruiting websites and stuff.
"Sound is in a bad marriage, instead of divorcing her and keeping half your shit, he just committed suicide"
anatem
Profile Joined September 2010
Romania1369 Posts
June 18 2011 17:17 GMT
#7
hilarious read. wonder how much more entertaining this is gonna get, it's pretty popcorn+soda worthy right now.
'Tis with our Judgements as our Watches, none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
fofa2000
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada548 Posts
June 18 2011 17:17 GMT
#8
And Yet I see Lulzsec still posting on their tweeter again...what's going on exactly ?
-smells likes tasty soup, what's the menu?-fresh jaedong style marine stew served with a glass of dragoon slush!-The food's any good?Quite unusual names, never heard-all my food's good, the kitchen's this way-btw whatu terarn doing alone in a zerg colony?
pikaaarrr :3
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States593 Posts
June 18 2011 17:19 GMT
#9
dohhh owned.

lulzsec has gone too far, and i'm glad to see them put in their place.
B-Roll
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States403 Posts
June 18 2011 17:22 GMT
#10
It's so great. Lulzsec abused his power and knowledge and got taken down. Shows that not all hackers are dicks.
Erucious
Profile Joined March 2010
Norway393 Posts
June 18 2011 17:34 GMT
#11
So wait, i read this thing 2 times through and there is something i dont get.

Aneka is interviewing Jester guy for a paper somewhere or a magazine. Then the Jester pays the interviewer money? Is it normal for interviewee's to pay interviewers? Shouldnt it be the other way around?

I am confuus
I'm Norwegian/Dutch. Just the awesome parts of them though :D
Lucko
Profile Joined May 2011
United States48 Posts
June 18 2011 17:34 GMT
#12
I dunno about all that crusader stuff but if you have the ability and power to do what they did what are you gonna do with it? Whats the point of having skills if you cant test them.
"I see he is doing the 'lose all my banshees' strategy, Im good against that strategy"-Tasteless impersonating MKP agaisnt Thebestfou
Barundar
Profile Joined May 2010
Denmark1582 Posts
June 18 2011 17:35 GMT
#13
I have no idea whos good and whos bad, but this drama is exciting!
Bartundar
tenacity
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
1587 Posts
June 18 2011 17:38 GMT
#14
if these guys knew that this jester guy is one of the best, why would they try to fake him w/o pissing him off? did they think they couldn't get caught even by him?
It does not need to be fun to be fun.
iNCuBuS_
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States905 Posts
June 18 2011 17:38 GMT
#15
I was just trying to go on theberrics.com website (skateboarding) and it wont let me navigate anywhere but the main page, and it keeps popping up with random things, including one picture of a "failboat" sailing and it says something about lulzsec on it.
I wanted to watch Battle at the Berrics 4 today :/
POiNTx
Profile Joined July 2010
Belgium309 Posts
June 18 2011 17:39 GMT
#16
On June 19 2011 02:34 Lucko wrote:
I dunno about all that crusader stuff but if you have the ability and power to do what they did what are you gonna do with it? Whats the point of having skills if you cant test them.


So you agree with them releasing passwords and usernames of innocent people?

Also if you have the skills to do something like this, you can join companies that do just that. Other companies pay them to test their security and then the hackers say what can be improved and such.
Fuck yeah serotonin
Kujawa
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States137 Posts
June 18 2011 17:40 GMT
#17
dude check their twitter there fine. http://twitter.com/#!/lulzsec
get the fuck out ball- hot_bid
Khaymus
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States750 Posts
June 18 2011 17:40 GMT
#18
Good. Revealed as the script kiddies they are. Good job caped crusader. Purge the internet of these sad human beings.

Wanna nuke 4chan for us next?
Let them say we lived in the time of Boxer, Emperor of Terran. Let them say we lived in the time of Nal_rA, Dreamer of Protoss. Let them say we lived in the time of Savior, Master of the Zerg.
Neo7
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States922 Posts
June 18 2011 17:41 GMT
#19
On June 19 2011 02:35 Barundar wrote:
I have no idea whos good and whos bad, but this drama is exciting!


The Jester is seen as the Knight of Hacking (does it for good) though he gained a negative reputation when he decided to go against Wikileaks.
It takes an idiot to do cool things.
tenacity
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
1587 Posts
June 18 2011 17:41 GMT
#20
On June 19 2011 02:34 Erucious wrote:
So wait, i read this thing 2 times through and there is something i dont get.

Aneka is interviewing Jester guy for a paper somewhere or a magazine. Then the Jester pays the interviewer money? Is it normal for interviewee's to pay interviewers? Shouldnt it be the other way around?

I am confuus


I don't get this either T_T;
It does not need to be fun to be fun.
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