Pro-Israel Hacker steal $ 90 million from Iran's largest crypto exchange

Pro-Israel Hacker steal $ 90 million from Iran's largest crypto exchange

On Wednesday, Hacker captured the counterpart of around $ 90 million from Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchange, as several independent crypto tracking companies reported.

cyber attack on Nobitex

A skillful pro-Israeli hacker group, known as "Predatory Sparrow", assumed responsibility for the cyber attack, which apparently aimed to further destabilize Iran, while Military attacks of Israels take place on Tehran.

In a post on x in Farsi, the hackers stated that they had attacked the Iranian crypto exchange Nobitex and claimed that Iran used the stock exchange to avoid international sanctions. In an extraordinary step, the hackers may have transferred the stolen cryptocurrency into emptiness by transferring them to digital "wallets" that they have no control over, according to several cyber security experts.

recognition of the incident by Nobitex

Nobitex confirmed the incident in an explanation on her website on Wednesday and announced that access to the crypto exchange was “suspended” for precautionary reasons until further communications are made. The crypto-tracking companies elliptic and trm labs confirmed that the cryptocurrency "Wallets" or crypto accounts was transferred, with a swear word that alluded to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC).

Additional cyber attack on the Bank Sepah

In a separate hack on Tuesday, Predatory Sparrow said that they destroyed data from the state bank Sepah in Iran, with the claim that members of the IRGC had used banking services as justification for the campaign. The state -affiliated news agency Fars warned of possible disorders of banking services at petrol stations.

A source in Tehran reported that they had visited about 10 ATMs in the past two days and that they either not worked or were not empty.

increasing cyber warfare between Israel and Iran

These two impressive cyber attacks mark an escalation in the years of shadow war between Israel and Iran in cyberspace, where the arch enemies - or its supporters - use digital espionage and data -destroying attacks on tactical advantages.

Predatory Sparrow has emerged as a group in the past five years that has carried out spectacular cyber attacks and previously disturbed an Iranian steel factory and payment processing at Iranian petrol stations. The hackers present themselves as anti-governmental Iranian hacktivists, but are largely suspected by cyber security experts than connected to Israel.

effects on the population

Hamid Kashfi, a Persian -language cyber security expert, told CNN that the hack on Nobitex could also affect ordinary Iranians, despite the claims of the hackers, only to target the IRGC assets. In the current war with Israel and the dwindling access to financial resources, "many Iranians put on crypto," said Kashfi.

Most of the recent cyber activities, while Israel and Iran exchange rocket attacks, seems to be destroyed to sow panic in both countries. For example, Israelis received mass text messages that spoke as authorities and claimed that the bunker protection systems were unsure.

security concerns of the Iranian government

The Iranian government meanwhile warned the citizens of using the messaging service WhatsApp for fear that Israel could collect information from these chats. A spokesman for Meta, the company who owns WhatsApp, rejected these claims and emphasized that the news from WhatsApp was end-to-end.

The reporting of CNN was supported by Muhammad Darwish.