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The administrator of Joker's Stash, a popular and one of the longest-running marketplace for cybercriminals to purchase stolen credit cards, announced on Friday that they would permanently shut down the operation next month. The illegal card shop opened in 2014 and became famous for providing fresh stolen credit card data and a promise of card validity; some of the cards were touted to be exclusive to Joker's Stash.
Joker's Stash, the largest dark web marketplace notorious for selling compromised payment card data, has announced plans to shut down its operations on February 15, 2021. "Joker goes on a well-deserved retirement. Joker's Stash is closing," the post read. "When we opened years ago, nobody knew us. Today we are one of the largest cards/dumps marketplace[s]."
The operators of Joker's Stash operate several versions of the platform, including Blockchain proxy server domains -. The actors behind Joker's Stash took to Russian-language carding forum Club2CRD stating that no card dumps were stored on the servers and transition plans were already underway to move the content hosted on the busted site to a new blockchain version of the portal.
Joker's Stash, the carding site where cybercriminals hawk their payment-card wares, has suffered a blow after law enforcement apparently seized one of its domains. Bazar version of the site began displaying a notification that the U.S. Department of Justice and Interpol had seized the site.
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.
Popular U.S. smoked-meat franchise Dickey's Barbecue Pit has been hit with a data breach, with cybercriminals posting the fat cap of the compromised data - 3 million payment cards - on the popular Joker's Stash underground marketplace this week. "We are utilizing the experience of third parties who have helped other restaurants address similar issues and also working with the FBI and payment card networks. We understand that payment card network rules generally provide that individuals who timely report unauthorized charges to the bank that issued their card are not responsible for those charges."
The Joker malware has been a persistent thorn in Google's side as it keeps popping up in shady apps to infect users of the Google Play store. Google has long been locked in a battle with cybercriminals who create and submit malicious apps to the Play store that somehow sneak past the company's protections.
More variants of the Joker Android malware are cropping up in Google Play as well as third-party app stores, in a trend that researchers say points to a relentless targeting of the Android mobile platform. The Joker apps advertise themselves as legitimate apps.
Google has deleted six apps from its Google Play marketplace that were infecting users with the Joker malware. As of Wednesday, Google confirmed with Threatpost that all infected applications have been removed from Google Play, but researchers said that they are still installed on the devices of their users, and urged users to immediately delete the apps.
A new variant of the infamous Joker malware has once again made it onto Google Play, with Google removing 11 malicious Android applications from its official app marketplace, researchers disclosed Thursday. "The Joker malware is tricky to detect, despite Google's investment in adding Play Store protections. Although Google removed the malicious apps from the Play Store, we can fully expect Joker to adapt again. Everyone should take the time to understand what Joker is and how it hurts everyday people."