Update, June 18, 8:01 UTC: This article was updated with the section about Gonjeshke Darande.
Update June 18, 8:49 UTC: This article has been updated to contain the latest data and quotes from Gym.
According to investigator Onchain Zachxbt based in Iran, the Nobitex cryptocurrency exchange was hacked for over 81 million dollars of digital assets.
Attack, revealed In Wednesday’s Telegram position, at least 81.7 million dollars of assets were deprived of the entire blockchains Thron and Etroneum Virtual Machine (EVM) network.
Zachxbt noticed the attackers using the “vanity address” to exploit the protocol, which caused “suspicious outflows” from many portfolios related to Nobitex.
The address of vanity refers to the public portfolio address with a sequence of characters defined by the user. The first $ 49 million was stolen on the basis of the address “TkfuckiRgcterroristSnobitexy2r7mnx”. The second address used is “0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffdead”, According to to Tronscan.
Nobitex confirmed that some of his heated wallets saw the signs of “unauthorized access” and were immediately “suspended” after detecting.
“Users’ assets are completely safe according to cool standards, and the above incident has only affected some of the assets in hot wallets,” said Nobitex WX postadding that “all damage will be compensated through the insurance fund and Nobitex resources.”
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Exploit Nobitex “seems to be due to a critical failure of access control, enabling the attacker to infiltrate internal systems and the removal of hot portfolios by many blocks,” according to Hakana UNAL, older security operations at Blockchain Security Cyvers Cyvers.
“However, surprising, stolen funds remain unwashed,” said Unal.
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“Most of these $ 2.1 billion were caused by a portfolio compromise, key problems related to improper and operational,” said Ronghui GU, co -founder Certik, during Cointelegraph during the Daily X Spaces chain reaction show June 2.
He added that social engineering fraud, such as addresses of addresses, are now more common than hacks at the protocol level. These attacks are based on psychological manipulation to deceive users to transfer assets to false wallets.
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Proizrael Hacker Group claims that responsibility
The Proizrael Group of Hackers is called “Gonjeshke Darande”, she reported responsibility for Hack Nobitex.
IN post At X, the group said that it would publish the source code and internal exchanges within 24 hours, warning that all other assets on the platform “will be threatened”.
“The Nobitex stock exchange is at the basis of the regime’s efforts to finance terror around the world, and is also a favorite tool for violating the regime’s sanctions,” the group wrote.
“The dependence of the regime on Nobitex results from the fact that work in Nobitex is considered an important military service, because it is considered necessary for the efforts of the regime,” said the group, calling users to “take action before it is too late.”
Hack on the stock exchange takes place on the fifth day of the renovated conflict between Israel and Iran, arousing concerns about the wider regional war.
On June 13, Israel began many strikes for goals in Iran, which means its greatest attack on the country since the Iran-Irak war in the 1980s. Since then, both countries have been involved in strategic missile strikes, which caused 224 deaths in Iran, and 24 reported deaths in Israel, According to to the guardian.
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