Israelgebundene räuberische Spatzhacker führen Cyberwar auf das iranische Finanzsystem

The Israel-linked hacker group known as Predatory Sparrow has carried out some of the most disruptive and destructive cyberattacks in history, twice disabling thousands of gas station payment systems across Iran and once even setting a steel mill in the country on fire. Now, in the midst of a new war unfolding between the two countries, they appear to be bent on burning Iran’s financial system.

Predatory Sparrow, which often goes by its Farsi name, Gonjeshke Darande, in an effort to appear as a homegrown hacktivist organization, announced in a post on on its X account Wednesday that it had targeted the Iranian crypto exchange Nobitex, accusing the exchange of enabling sanctions violation and terrorist financing on behalf of the Iranian regime. According to cryptocurrency tracing firm Elliptic, the hackers destroyed more than $90 million in Nobitex holdings, a rare instance of hackers burning crypto assets rather than stealing them.

The incident follows another Predatory Sparrow attack on Iran’s finance system on Wednesday, in which the same group targeted Iran’s Sepah bank, claiming to have destroyed “all” the bank’s data in retaliation for its associations with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and posting documents that appeared to show agreements between the bank and the Iranian military.

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Iran and affiliated hackers have been attacking Israel’s financial systems for years now. With parts of the credit card system going down temporary several times.

Setting factories on fire and destroying all bank data ?

Imagine what the enemy could do if they decide to wage cyberwarfare on American infrastructures and most importantly, financial institutions. If you think Iranians would be discouraged to support war with Israel when their whole life savings are wiped out, what would Americans do when the same thing is done to their savings ?

Just today, Bloomberg reported that the Chinese won at EVERY SINGLE Pwn2Own tournaments, up until they decided to … not participating anymore. Instead they organize their own tournaments just for themselves, so any vulnerabilities they found would remain secrets to be used later.