Iranian Crypto Exchange Nobitex Exploited for $73M
Update, June 18, 8:01 am UTC: This article has been updated to include a section on Gonjeshke Darande.
Iran-based cryptocurrency exchange Nobitex has been exploited for over $73 million of digital assets, according to onchain investigator ZachXBT.
The attack, disclosed in a Wednesday Telegram post, drained at least $73 million in assets across the Tron network and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible blockchains, though only a portion is confirmed lost.
ZachXBT spotted attackers using a “vanity address” to exploit the protocol, which resulted in “suspicious outflows” from multiple Nobitex-linked wallets.
A vanity address refers to a public wallet address with a specific, user-defined sequence of characters. The first $49…
