The Jester (hacktivist)
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The Jester (also known by the leetspeak handle th3j35t3r[1]) is a self-described gray hat[2] "hacktivist"[3] who is allegedly responsible for attacks on WikiLeaks,[4] 4chan,[5] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,[4] and Islamist websites.[6] He claims to be acting out of American patriotism.[7] The Jester developed and uses the denial-of-service (DoS) tool known as "XerXeS".[4] One of The Jester's habits is to tweet "TANGO DOWN" on Twitter whenever he successfully takes down a website.[5]
The Jester had stated that he was a former soldier and had served in Afghanistan and elsewhere.[8] A former defense operative claimed that The Jester was a former military contractor involved in US Special Operations Command projects.[7]
The Jester claims to have originally developed his DoS script as a means to test and harden servers.[9] After learning from an article that Jihadists were using the Internet to recruit and coordinate terror cells, The Jester resolved to disrupting online communications between Jihadists.[10] He weaponized his script and created a front-end known as "XerXeS" in order to solve the script's usability problems.[9]
On January 1, 2010, The Jester began a campaign against Jihadist websites. His first target was alemarah.info, which was the Taliban's website at the time.[11][12][13]
On November 28, 2010, The Jester posted several tweets claiming to be responsible for the downtime WikiLeaks was experiencing.[5] He justified his alleged attacks by claiming that WikiLeaks was "attempting to endanger the lives of our [US] troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations."[4] In retaliation to The Jester's reported efforts hacktivists including a group named Anonymous in support of WikiLeaks were reported as temporarily disrupting the website of MasterCard as well as attacking websites of Amazon and Paypal.[14]
On December 28, 2010, a DoS attack targeted 4chan.org. On that same day, The Jester tweeted "4chan.org — that looks like a TANGO DOWN (not) maybe you guys pissed off the wrong person trying to (wrongly) ID me?"[5] This tweet is believed to be a reference to 4chan's claims that The Jester was a man from Montana.[5][15]
On February 21, 2011, The Jester began a DoS attack on several sites belonging to the Westboro Baptist Church.[16]
In June 2011 The Jester vowed to find and expose members of LulzSec.[17] He has attempted to obtain and publish the real world personally identifiable information of key members, who he describes as "childish".[18] On June 24, 2011, he claimed to have revealed the identity of LulzSec leader Sabu as an information technology consultant possibly from New York City.[19]
References
- ^ Keizer, Gregg (2010-11-30). "WikiLeaks moves to Amazon servers after DOS attacks". Computerworld New Zealand. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
- ^ th3j35t3r (2010-07-03). "[Interview] The Jester" (Interview). Interviewed by ethicalhack3r. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
{{cite interview}}: Unknown parameter|program=ignored (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ th3j35t3r. "About Jester". th3j35t3r.wordpress.com. WordPress. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d Winter, Jana (2010-12-03). "'Hacktivist' Jester Claims Responsibility for WikiLeaks Attack". Fox News. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
- ^ a b c d e Nelson, Steven (2010-12-28). "Patriotic 'hackitivist for good' may be behind takedown of 4chan.org". The Daily Caller. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
- ^ Rosenbach, Marcel; Stark, Holger (2010-12-07). "Julian Assange Becomes US's Public Enemy No. 1". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
- ^ a b Vance, Ashlee (2010-12-03). "WikiLeaks Struggles to Stay Online After Attacks". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
- ^ Stiennon, Richard (2010-01-07). "Patriot Hacker Hits Jihad With DDoS Attacks". Information Security Resources. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ a b Freed, Anthony M. (2010-02-10). "Jester Unveils XerXeS Automated DoS Attack". Infosec Island. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
- ^ Freed, Anthony M. (2010-02-04). "More Talks with Anti-Jihadi Hacker The Jester". Infosec Island. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
- ^ th3j35t3r (2010-06-30). "Hacker macht Jagd auf Online-Dschihadisten" (Interview). Interviewed by Florian Flade. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
{{cite interview}}: Unknown parameter|program=ignored (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ th3j35t3r (2010-06-30). "Unredacted Original Interview with Newspaper 'Die Welt'" (Interview). Interviewed by Florian Flade. Retrieved 2010-12-29.
{{cite interview}}: Unknown parameter|program=ignored (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Afghan Taliban deny meeting U.N. envoy". Reuters. 2010-01-30. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
- ^ David Leigh, Luke Harding WikiLeaks cyber attacks: a tango with the Jester The Guardian, 2 February 2011
- ^ Prefect (2010-12-10). "Anonymous Turns Operation Payback Toward "The Jester"". Praetorian Prefect. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
- ^ (2011-03-24) |"Hacktivist Maintains Attack on Westboro Baptist Church" Retrieved 28 March 2011
- ^ Poeter, Damon (24 June 2011). "Will LulzSec's Hit on Arizona Cops be its Last Hurrah?". PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 25 June 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ Halliday, Josh (24 June 2011). "LulzSec: the members and the enemies". The Guardian. London. Guardian Media Group. Archived from the original on 25 June 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ Chapman, Stephen (24 June 2011). "LulzSec's leader, Sabu, revealed?". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 25 June 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
External links
- Jester's Court – The Jester's weblog