Analysis of funds stolen from Nobitex, Iran's largest exchange
Written by: Beosin
On June 18, Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, announced that it had been hacked and lost about $100 million, involving a variety of cryptocurrencies such as BTC, ETH, Doge, XRP, SOL, TRX, and Ton. A pro-Israel group called "Gonjeshke Darande" has claimed responsibility for the attack, characterizing it as a strike against Iran's crypto infrastructure. The Beosin security team immediately analyzed and tracked the funds, and shared the results as follows:
Thestolen funds flowed to
this attack involving multiple blockchain networks, and through Beosin Trace analysis, the attacker's address has been confirmed as follows:
TRON network: TKFuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEXy2r7mNX
Ethereum Network: 0xffFFfFFffFFffFfFffFFfFfFfFFFFfFfFFFFDead
BTC Network: 1FuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEXXXaAovLX
Solana Network: FuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Ripple Network: rFuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEXypBrmUM
TON Network: UQABFuckIRGCTerroristsNOBITEX1111111111111111_jT
Harmony Network: one19fuckterr0rfuckterr0rfuckterr0rxn7kj7u
Dogecoin Network: DFuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEXXXWLW65t
Among them, 23,531 TRX and 49,439,310 USDT were stolen from the TRON network, with a total loss of about $49.45 million, and its fund flow chart is as follows:
Beosin Trace Fund Flow Chart
939,556 USDT, 262.87 ETH, and a variety of Ethereum ecosystem project tokens (UNI, AXS, PEPE, MASK, MEME, AAVE, etc.) were stolen from the Ethereum network, with a total loss of about $8.2 million. The following are the main stolen asset flows of the Ethereum network:
Beosin Trace Funds Flow Chart
TheBitcoin network stole 18.47 BTC with a loss of about $1.93 million, and the following is the flow of stolen funds from the BTC network:
Beosin Trace Funds Flow Chart
373,852 XRP stolen from the RIpple network, with a total loss of about $800,000
:Beosin Trace Money Flow Graph
173 SOL, 336,067 WIFs and 31,954 RENDER were stolen from the Solana network, with a total loss of about $400,000
:Beosin KYT Funds Flow Chart
The Dogecoin network stole 39,409,954 Doge, with a loss of about $6.7 million, while the Harmony and TON networks together lost about $400,000. At present, more addresses of the attacker are still being investigated and confirmed, and Beosin Trace and KYT have added the above-confirmed addresses related to the attacker to the black address database, and will continue to track them in the future.
Immediately
after the Nobitex Response attack, Nobitex issued a public statement indicating that the majority of the exchange's crypto assets are still stored in secure cold wallets and are unaffected. In addition, Nobitex has taken steps to isolate the attacked systems and enhance their security posture to reduce the risk of similar attacks in the future.