The computer pirate linked to Israel group known as Predatory sparrow He has made some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberataques of history, twice disabled thousands of gas stations in Iran and even establish a steel factory in the country. Now, in the midst of a new war between the two countries, it seems that they were leaning to burn the Iran’s financial system.
Gonjeshke Darande, a predator, who is often named after his Farsi, announced on Wednesday that he had directed his Hacktivist exchange, accusing the exchange of sanctions violation and Iranian terrorist funding in the Iranian regime. According to the elliptical Cryptocurrency Trace firm, the pirates destroyed more than $ 90 million In Nobitex Holdings, a rare instance of hackers burning crypt assets instead of stealing them.
“These cyberataques are the result of Nobitex a key tool of regime to fund terrorism and violating sanctions,” pirates posted to X. “Associate with the funding of regime terror and the violation violation infrastructure puts your assets at risk.”
The incident continues on Wednesday another attack from sparrow to Iran’s finance system, in which the same group went to the Bank of Sepah Iran, who claimed to have destroyed “all” the data of the bank in retaliation for its associations with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Guard body, and published documents that seemed to show agreements between the bank and the Iranian military. “Precaution: to associate the regime’s instruments to evade sanctions and finance their ballistic missiles and the nuclear program is bad for your long-term financial health,” pirates wrote. “Who is the following?”
Sepah Bank’s website was yesterday offline But it seems to be back to work today. The bank did not respond to Wired’s comments request. The Nobitex website was offline today and could not comment on the company.
As is often the case in the fog of a war that unfolds and its cyberataques that accompany it, the predatory cyberataques have been clear. But Hamid Kashfi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher living in Sweden and the founder of the Darkcell cybersecurity firm, says he has heard contacts in Iran that SEPAH online banking and ATMs have been offline since the attacks began, causing a widespread interruption to civilians’ ability to access their funds. “There has been a lot of collateral damage,” says Kashfi. “It seems that it causes damage and chaos. I cannot think about what another logic would be behind. Yes, they provide services to the army. But so do it for millions of regular loos and civilians.”
In Nobitex’s attack, Blockchain analysis reveals some of the details of sparrow predator sabotage: According to the elliptical, the sum of eight -digit stolen from the exchange was moved to a series of crypt addresses that began with variations in the phrase “fuckirgcterroristas”. The so -called “vanity” addresses are usually not created in any way that offer the control or recovery of funds there, so elliptical concludes that moving funds to these addresses was a signpost to destroy money. “Pirates are clearly more than financial political motivations,” says Tom Robinson, co -founder of Elliptic. “The crypt they stole has been burned effectively.”
