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/
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"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."
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
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