Pro-Israel hackers take credit after $138 million stolen from Iran’s largest crypto exchange
Hackers stole the equivalent of roughly $US90 million ($138 million) from Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Wednesday, according to multiple independent crypto-tracking firms.
A skilled pro-Israel hacking group known as “Predatory Sparrow” took credit for the cyberattack, which appeared to be aimed at further weakening Iran amid Israeli’s military strikes on Tehran.
In a post in Farsi on X, the hackers said that they had hit Iranian crypto exchange Nobitex, claiming that Iran used the exchange to skirt international sanctions.
And in an extraordinary move, the…
