The Iranian Cryptocurrency Exchange Nobitex was hacked for almost 50 million dollars, and Iran-Israel war reaches Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies palpablely. Various sources attribute cyber attack to Predatry Sparrow, a group of hackers in favor of Israel’s cause in the current war between the two countries, although the group itself calls “Gonjeshke Darande.”
Iran would be suffering from cyber attacks at different scales that have paralyzed their bank cashiers to get effective, among other fundamental digital structures such as the Internet, banks and mobile telephony.
“As previously announced, on the morning of Wednesday, June 18, Nobitex detected unauthorized access to part of its infrastructure, specifically affecting internal communication systems and a segment of the environment of hot Wallets,” The Exchange commented from your communications team in the social network X.
At the time of writing, one of the hacker accounts It has about 49 million dollars in its possessionmost of which are in USDT, the stablecoin of Tether. About 6 thousand dollars are in TRX, Tron’s native currency, which is necessary to move assets through the network. Research on these accounts is attributed to Zachxbt, a movement tracker in the “blockchain” records.
Several commentators of the incident have pointed out that hackers would be using a wallet or “Burner” address, or only one use. This follows from the name of the address «TKFUCKIRGCTERISNOBITEXY2R7MNX», according to a security analyst. «Most likely, this is a Burner address. The Tron address are 20 bytes derived from the key + 4 bytes of verification. The attackers use almost all the bits of their message. The brute force of 160 bits is currently out of reach (128 -bit OW systems are damaged) », The analyst commented.
Allegedly, the hacking could have risen above 100 million, and the hackers would have exchange funds in other cryptocurrency networks. At the same time, it is rumored that 3 billion notes of Nobitex were sent to a dead addresscausing the greatest burning of tokens in the history of Notcoin. This information is in the process of confirmation by the cryptootic team.
The hackers are threatening the Iranian Exchange with revealing internal information and the noblex source code in 24 hours. According to the Israeli hacker group, Nobitex is related to the Iranian regime.
After the “SEPAH Bank” of the CGRI, it is the turn of Nobitex. WARNING! In 24 hours, we will publish the source code and the internal information of Nobitex of its internal network. Any asset that remains there after that moment will be at risk! The Nobitex exchange platform is essential for regime’s efforts to finance terrorism worldwide, in addition to being its favorite tool to violate sanctions. We, “Gonjeshke Darande,” we carry out cyber attacks against Nobitex. Nobitex does not even pretend to comply with the sanctions. In fact, he publicly instructs users on how to use their infrastructure to avoid them. شک درنده The dependence of the Nobitex regime is evident, since working in Nobitex is considered valid military service, and is considered vital for regime’s actions. These cyber attacks are the result that Nobitex is a key tool of the regime to finance terrorism and violate sanctions. Associate with the terrorism financing infrastructure and violation of regime sanctions puts its assets at risk. Act before it’s too late!
«Gonjeshke Darende», hackers.
Meanwhile, the Nobitex’s official account He assures that his data centers were disconnected from the network to avoid unauthorized accesses. Also that the Hot Wallet funds affected were moved to cold storage, and users “will see the balances of their wallets exactly as they were before the incident, without loss or discrepancies.”
Cyber attacks attributed to Israel have generated financial and social chaos in recent days. Iraní Fars, a affiliated news agency allegedly affiliated with the body of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, reported that Iran has suffered more than 6,700 service denial attacks (DDOS) in the last three days.
Telephone and Internet services have been threatened, especially after Israeli bombings that damaged key facilities, while the Iranian government imposes restrictions to control information. Yesterday, the same hacker group would have destroyed the Bank Database SEPAH, an important bank of Iran, for the same reasons that Nobitex hacked: for alleged connections with the Iranian government.
