As per the reports, the authorities in the United States have seized 145 domains and an undisclosed amount of crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web marketplace.
The announcement of the action came on June 05, 2025, on the websites of the United States Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Virginia.
It notes that “ BidenCash commenced operations in March 2022. BidenCash administrators charged a fee for every transaction conducted on the website. The BidenCash marketplace had grown to support over 117,000 customers, facilitated the trafficking of over 15 million payment card numbers and personally identifiable information, and generated over $17 million in revenue during its operations.”
BidenCash is a dark web marketplace launched in March 2022, specialising in the sale of stolen credit card data, personally identifiable information (PII), and Secure Shell Protocol credentials.
It has been operated on both the dark web and the clearnet, offering a user-friendly interface, automated buying tools, buyer protection, and others.
The official information notes that between October 2022 and February 2023 the BidenCash has published 3.3 million individual stolen credit cards for free to boost the use of their services.
Published data included card number, expiration dates, CVV, account holder name, email address, and other crucial details.
Major allegations against BidenCash
In June 2022, BidenCash released the data of 7.9 million cardholders, and in October 2022, the firm was accused of leaking records of 1.2 million credit and debit cards.
Further, in February 2023, BidenCash published details related to 2.1 million credit cards, with 70% of them expiring in the year 2023. Later in December 2023, it leaked data of 1.9 million credit card holders.
Since 2023, BidenCash has expanded its services, including SSH credentials sold for $2, and it has listed over 850 SSH servers with different configurations.
Usage of Crypto in the dark web
As per some available reports, the usage of crypto has become one of the main medium of exchange on the dark web; a report published in 2018 by NDSS Symposium, over 10 million distinct crypto addresses were taken from dark web data, highlighting the use of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero for illegal activities.
According to Cyble(dot)com, this tendency has gotten worse, with ransomware and crypto-based crimes rising by around $176 million in 2023 compared to 2022.
Some major cryptocurrencies that are reportedly used as currency are Bitcoin, Litecoin, Zcash, and Monero. The FBI recently seized the BidenCash marketplace, which brought in $17 million from crypto transactions, demonstrating the difficulties the growing use of crypto has for law enforcement.
A quick overview of the crypto market
Until publishing, the crypto market cap was $3.29 trillion with a loss of 1.33%, and the trading volume was $102.71 billion, and the crypto fear and greed index is at 56, indicating neutrality.
Bitcoin has been trading at $104,801 with a loss of 0.99%, and its market capitalization is $2.08 trillion with a loss of 1.06%, and its trading volume is 5.85%.
Ethereum is still at $2,611 with a loss of 1.36%, and the market cap is $314.41 billion, and trading volume is $15.91 billion with a 1.52%.
The intraday losers are Fartcoin, Dogwifhat, Virtual Protocol, Curve DAO token, Core, Ethena, Uniswap, Jupiter, Injective, Pepe, and Pyth Network.
