15:39 - 18.06.2025

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June 18, Fineko/abc.az. The largest Iranian crypto exchange Nobitex has been hacked.

As a result of unauthorized access to the platform's hot wallets, over $81 million in digital assets were withdrawn from them.

ABC.AZ informs that blockchain analyst ZachXBT linked the leak to two so-called "vanity addresses". One of them contained anti-Iranian message TKFuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEX, and the other consisted of repeating sequence of the letter f and the word Dead, typically used to burn tokens.

The Gonjeshke Darande group, better known as Predator Sparrow, claimed responsibility for the attack. This team positions itself as a pro-Israel hacktivist formation and has previously been seen hacking into Iranian steel mills, fuel infrastructure, and banking systems.

In a statement on X (formerly Twitter), hackers called Nobitex a key mechanism for circumventing sanctions and financing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. They threatened to publish the source code and internal documents of the platform and warned that the remaining assets of users are at risk.