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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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.