It is not much less the theft of more large cryptocurrencies in history, but those 90 million dollars are especially significant for whom they are involved and why. Those involved are Israel and Iran. And why, unfortunately, the war that both nations maintain.
Israel hacking to Iran. The war between Israel and Iran is intensified, and does not only do it with new and striking tactics on the battlefield. It also does it through cyber warmen. A group called Gonjeshke Darande, (predatory sparrow, in a translation from the Persian) the hacking of the Iranian market of Cryptodivisas Nobitex has been attributed.
Possible link to Israel. There is no definitive evidence of a direct link between the Government of Israel and this grip hacker, Sophos experts indicate. Rafe Pilling, director of Intelligence of Threats in that firm, explained that Ciberarataque had all the characteristics of an attack supported by a government.
90? Millions of dollars. The Hacker Group has achieved according to The Guardian steal 90 million dollars, although the page of the Persian edition of Wikipedia indicates that the robbery amounted to 3.76 billion rials, about 47 million dollars, although that money may be the one that has been stolen from one of the two tronscan destination purses. From Gonjeshke Darende they have also threatened to publish both the company’s internea information and the source code of its cryptodivsis purchase platform. The final amount is not entirely clear, and according to Cointegraph is exceeding 81.7 million dollars.
Cold purses, safe. The attack, admit in Nobitex, has allowed to steal the cryptocurrencies of the “hot” websites of the platform, used to facilitate daily transactions. He has not affected cold, safer purses. Nubitex blocked access to the platform as soon as they and those responsible say that “all damages will be compensated through the insurance fund.” In a later message they have revealed that the impact of the attack is “more complex than it was initially estimated.”
And above, Internet cuts. From Nobitex they explain that their capacity to respond to cyber attack has also been affected by the cuts in the country’s internet infrastructure, “together with limited access to the facilities due to the current national crisis.” They hope to recover and restore their services in the next 4 or 5 days, but in the meantime the platform is still unable to be accessed.
A hacking with political motivation.Yehor Rudytsia, security researcher at the Hacken firm, said in Cintelegraph how this cyber attack is more “a political statement than a robbery with economic motivation.” In fact, according to The Guardian the hackers have “burned” those funds storing them in custom addresses (“vanity addresses“) that they do not have a known private password or possibility of recovering. For example, a purse such as” 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Transferring cryptocurrencies to this type of addresses is actually destroying them voluntarily by leaving them blocked forever. The hackers have used directions with variations of the term “Jo *** Osterrorists”.
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