Urgent | Hack of the Iranian Nobitex platform and theft of assets exceeding 81 million dollars!

In an incident considered one of the largest cyberattacks on cryptocurrency platforms in the region, the Israeli hacker group Predatory Sparrow announced its responsibility for the hack of the Nobitex platform, the largest cryptocurrency trading platform in Iran, and the theft of approximately 81.7 million dollars worth of digital assets.

🧨 The group pledged to publish the source code and internal data of the platform within 24 hours, warning that the remaining assets are still at risk.

🔐 The Nobitex team confirmed the occurrence of the attack, and clarified that cold storage wallets were not affected, promising to compensate the affected users through an insurance fund.

📉 The stolen assets included currencies like USDT, $DOGE, and $BTC, and analyses showed the use of wallets carrying politically directed messages.

⚠️ This attack comes days after the hack of the Iranian “Sepah” bank, reflecting a rise in targeted digital attacks of a geopolitical nature.

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