The Iranian crypto exchange’s wallets were exploited for at least $73 million as attackers used vanity addresses for the theft.
Iran-based cryptocurrency exchange Nobitex appears to have been exploited for over $73 million of digital assets, according to onchain investigator ZachXBT.
The attack, disclosed in a June 18 Telegram post, allegedly 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.
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