Security News > 2020 > December > Servers of Carding Site "Joker's Stash" Seized by Law Enforcement
The blockchain domains of Joker's Stash, a popular underground marketplace for stolen payment card data, have been seized by law enforcement.
What the two law enforcement agencies apparently managed to do was to seize proxy servers that were used in connection with the Joker's Stash blockchain domains.
Following the action, Joker's Stash operators decided to take the site down completely, but took it to Russian-language carding forum Club2CRD to provide clarifications on the issue, revealing that no "Shop data" was present on the affected server.
"Generally speaking, if the Joker's Stash takedown was a coordinated law enforcement operation, it's likely that the law enforcement banner would remain in place to demonstrate that other Blockchain DNS services aren't untouchable. On the other hand, it's possible that law enforcement thought they had taken the entire Joker's Stash service offline, rather than just one component, and quickly removed the banner after finding out that this was not the case," Digital Shadows points out.
Intel 471's security researchers believe that, provided that law enforcement indeed seized Joker's Stash servers, the marketplace would be able to quickly restore its services.