Joker’s Stash, the largest carding site, is shutting down

Joker’s Stash to shut down on February 15, 2021.

Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online announced that it was shutting down its operations on February 15, 2021.

Joker’s Stash, the largest carding marketplace online, announced that its operations will shut down on February 15, 2021.

The administrator announced the decision via messages posted on various cybercrime forums.

Joker’s Stash is one of the most longevous carding websites, it was launched in October 2014 and is very popular in the cybercrime underground due to the freshness of its cards and their validity. The administrators always claimed the exclusivity of their offer that is based on “self-hacked bases.”

In December, Joker’s Stash was shut down as a result of a coordinated operation conducted by the FBI and Interpol.

At the time, the authorities only seized some of the servers used by the carding portal, but the Joker’s Stash site hosted on the ToR network was not affected by the operations conducted by the police.

The sized sites were at jstash.bazar, jstash.lib, jstash.emc, and jstash.coin, which are all those accessible via blockchain DNS.

Joker Stash admins said in a message published on a hacking forum that the law enforcement only seized the servers hosting the above domains, that were only used to redirecting visitors to the actual website.

The seizure operated by law enforcement in December had an impact on the reputation of the portal, some users were also claiming that the quality of the services offered by Joker’s Stash was decreasing.

“Throughout 2020, the typically active administrator JokerStash had several gaps in communications. JokerStash claimed that they were hospitalized due to a coronavirus infection. The decreasing number of large fresh bases also questioned their ability to source new card data.” reported FlashPoint.

The news of the closure of the card shop represents a major hit to the carding activities in the underground market.

The success of the recent operations might have pushed the administrators into an exit from their operations.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, carding)

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