Sparrow’s predatory hackers linked by Israel are conducting Cyberwar on the Iranian financial system

The hacker connected to Israel The group known as the Predatorio Sparrow carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive computer attacks of the story, disabling twice thousands of payment systems of the service stations in Iran and once even setting fire to a steel mill in the country. Now, in the middle of a new war that takes place between the two countries, they seem to be intent on burning the Iran financial system.

Sparrow predators, who often makes its name to do, Gonjeshke Darande, in an attempt to appear as a famous hacktivist organization, announced in a post on his account x on Wednesday who had targeted the Iranian encryption nobitex, accusing the exchange of qualifications of violations of the sanctions and terrorist funding on the behavior of the Iranian bra. According to the CryptoReNcy Tracing Firm Elliptic, hackers more than $ 90 million destroyed In Nobitex Holdings, a rare instance of hackers who burn cryptic resources rather than stealing them.

“These IT attacks are the result of the fact that Nobitex is a key regime tool for the financing of terrorism and violate the penalties”, the hackers have published on X. “associate with the financing of the regime terrorism and the infrastructures of violation of the sanctions put your activities at risk”.

The accident follows another predatory sparrow attack on the Iranian financial system on Wednesday, in which the same group targeted the Banca sepah Iraniana, claiming to have destroyed the bank’s data in retaliation for its associations with the body of the Islamic revolutionary guard of Iran and publishing documents that seemed to show agreements between the bank and the Irane military. “ATTENTION: associating the regime tools to evade the penalties and the financing of its ballistic missiles and the nuclear program is bad for long -term financial health,” the hackers wrote. “Who is the next?”

The Sepah Bank website was Offline yesterday But it seemed to work again today. The bank did not reply to Wired’s comment. The Nobitex website was offline today and the company could not be reached for a comment.

As often in the case in the fog of a war that is taking place and its accompanying computer attacks, the computer attacks of Effects Preadorary Sparrow remained unclear. But Hamid Kashfi, an Iranian computer security researcher who lives in Sweden and the founder of the Darkcell computer security company, claims to have heard the contacts in Iran that the online banking and automatic doors have been offline since the attacks began, causing a widespread interruption of civilians to access their funds. “There have been a lot of collateral damage,” says Kashfi. “It just seems to be straight causing damage and chaos. I can’t think of what other logic would be behind it. Yes, they provide services to the military. But they also do for millions of normal Joes and civilians.”

In the nobitex attack, the Blockchain analysis reveals some of the details of the sabotage of Predator Sparrow: according to Elliptic, the eight -digit sum stolen from the exchange has been moved to a series of encryption addresses that all have started with variations on the phrase “Fuckirgcterrorists”. Those so -called “vanity” addresses generally cannot be created in any way that offers the control or recovery of the funds held there, therefore Elliptic concludes that moving the funds to these addresses was instead a pointed method to destroy money. “Hackers clearly have political rather than financial motivations,” says Tom Robinson, co -founder of Elliptic. “The encryption they stole was actually burned.”