To top it off, many criminals had been complaining about a decline in the quality of cards supplied by Joker’s Stash over the past several months. In October, a member of the gang posted that they had recently been hospitalized with COVID-19, and in December the shop’s blockchain DNS domains temporarily displayed a law enforcement seizure notice, an incident that is still somewhat unexplained. The past year had not been an easy one for the crew behind Joker’s Stash, however. The shop was frequented by clients from around the world – the site was available in English and was marketed heavily on many Russian-language forums – and cultivated ties with renowned cybercriminal gangs such as FIN7 and Anunak (also known as Carbanak), which supplied the shop’s inventory. While card shops have been a staple of the underground for years, few have managed to achieve the level of prominence that Joker’s Stash enjoyed. Those behind the shop, which had been a pillar of the cybercriminal underground for years, announced that they were retiring, reminding their fellow fraudsters in their farewell message that “the most truly valuable things in this life are free.”
On February 15, 2021, after nearly 6.5 years in business, the prolific card shop Joker’s Stash closed its doors.
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