Damus
Open in Damus
waxwing profile picture
waxwing
@waxwing
Fascinating, read the elliptic blog post.

They burned all the stolen funds to vanity addresses.

https://www.elliptic.co/blog/iranian-crypto-exchange-nobitex-hacked-pro-israel-group


War Monitor @WarMonitor · 37w
A hacker group reportedly linked to Israel, known as “Predatory Sparrow,” has wiped out approximately 95% of the assets held on Iran’s Nobitex crypto exchange. Nobitex, which was allegedly used by the Iranian regime to bypass international sanctions through cryptocurrency, Show more
205❤️9👀3🤙3:eyes:1🔥1😮1
Tim Bouma · 37w
Interesting. What chain was this on? I couldn't tell from the article.
fun.relaxed.happy.satisfied · 37w
Lol Not you keys...
YODL · 37w
Confused by the amounts. Post says 1.7B lost while article says about 90M.
DOUG WILSON · 37w
"The hack also does not appear to be financially motivated. The vanity addresses used by the hackers are generated through "brute force" methods - involving the creation of large numbers of cryptographic key pairs until one contains the desired text. But creating vanity addresses with text strings a...
gandlaf21 · 37w
centralized exchanges continue to suck
vnprc · 37w
It's not about the money. It's about sending a message. https://image.nostr.build/19595300176229f5cd407ce9f914d747ead1f2e75e818f75acb251bdc4b355df.jpg
Nostrant Design Build · 37w
I bet they didn’t wipeout the bitcoin that people are holding in self custody.
0x07AD · 37w
This is a criminal act.