Compromiseseverity: High2025-06-17
Predatory Sparrow attacks Bank Sepah and Nobitex crypto exchange
published by TechCrunch
Actor
Pro-Israel hacktivist persona widely assessed by researchers and Israeli media as linked to Israeli military intelligence, though no government has publicly confirmed the relationship. Has claimed re…
Summary
Predatory Sparrow claimed responsibility for compromises of two major Iranian financial institutions amid the broader June 2025 Israel-Iran exchange of strikes. The Bank Sepah attack disrupted retail banking services nationwide; the Nobitex incident leaked the cryptocurrency exchange's internal codebase and saw $90M+ of customer funds burned to dead addresses with vanity prefixes (e.g. F***IRGC) — an ostentatious anti-IRGC signal rather than a financially-motivated theft.
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financialcryptocurrencyiraninformation-operations