Infosecurity Magazine Jester (th3j35t3r) describes himself as a patriotic cyber activist. He spends his time trying to find and take down what he considers to be enemies of the USA, ranging from Wikileaks and Anonymous to militant Islamic websites. Jester’s identity is not publicly known. Many suspect that he works with law enforcement, […]
Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer There is a war brewing. This war will be fought on the digital front. The players are the Anonymous hactivist group and a ‘Patriot Hactivist’ known as The Jester (th3j35t3r). Today the Anonymous hactivist group claims to have managed to take control of several social accounts belonging to ‘Patriot Hactivist’ […]
Laura Walker SOFREP The Jester is a lone-wolf patriot hacker who has been successfully waging a campaign of asymmetrical offensive cyber warfare in support of the United States for two and a half years. Among his known targeted attacks are numerous takedowns of jihadi recruiting websites, Wikileaks, the Westboro Baptist Church, (dragging 20 sites of theirs down […]
Ms. Smith NetworkWorld After the FBI arrested Cosmo, the alleged leader of the UGNazi hacking group, the hackers attacked CloudFlare via a flaw in Google’s two-factor authentication system. The CloudFlare hack allowed UGNazi to change the DNS for 4chan, so visitors to the site were redirected to a UGNazis Twitter account. The attack on […]
Eduard Kovacs Softpedia After many people suspected that he was setting up his own downfall in order to raise money for himself, The Jester (th3j35t3r) came forward to prove them wrong. It all started when a Twitter user named Smedley Manning (@cubespherical) published a number of screenshots that allegedly proved that he knew the hacker’s […]
Krypt3ia As many of you out there have likely seen, Jester got a bit upset when I tweeted to him this weekend pointing out the failure of his ways with removing sites (claimed by him) from the internet with his new tool. I responded to his self lauding tweets that in fact the […]
Jester’s Court ‘A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.’ – Jean Baudrillard This was not the original post in the queue I was gonna post – that can wait. Let’s talk about butthurt, and grudges. You see about 2 and a half years ago when I was […]
Jana Winter Fox News The hacker who calls himself “The Raptor” has a new flock of tech-savvy, eager veterans — including another military grandpa — ready to sign on to his campaign to disrupt the websites and online forums where Al Qaeda sympathizers congregate to push their hateful, anti-American propaganda. After FoxNews.com exclusively reported on The […]
Krypt3ia Preamble: Over the last few years, Jester has been out there making waves and headlines. I have been watching all of this with a jaundiced eye and think that its once again time I sit down and put my thoughts on paper, so to speak, about his antics. Recently, he had […]
th3 j35t3r ‘Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret’. – Ralph Waldo Emerson At the beginning of this week just hours before the news of Hector Monsegur’s arrest broke, many of you will have noticed that my twitter profile pic changed from the usual ‘Jester Mask’ to a QR-Code. The timing of this subtle change could not have been […]
