According to on-chain investigator ZachXBT, the Iran-based cryptocurrency exchange Nobitex appears to have been attacked, resulting in a loss of over $73 million in digital assets.

This attack was disclosed in a Telegram post on June 18, claiming that at least $73 million in assets were stolen from the Tron network and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible blockchains, although only a portion of the losses has been confirmed so far.

ZachXBT found that the attackers used "vanity addresses" to exploit the protocol, leading to "suspicious outflows" from multiple wallets associated with Nobitex.

Vanity addresses refer to public wallet addresses that have specific user-defined character sequences. The first $49 million stolen was done through the address "TKFuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEXy2r7mNX." According to Tronscan, the second address used was "0xffFFfFFffFFffFfFffFFfFfFfFFFFfFfFFFFDead."

This incident adds to the increasing number of hacking events in the cryptocurrency industry in 2025. According to blockchain security firm CertiK, over $2.1 billion in digital assets have been stolen so far this year.

Ronghui Gu, co-founder of CertiK, stated that hackers have shifted from exploiting blockchain infrastructure to profiting from human behavioral vulnerabilities.

Gu told Cointelegraph during the Chain Reaction daily X space program on June 2, "Most of the $2.1 billion is due to wallet leaks, poor key management, and operational issues."

Social engineering scams like address poisoning do not require any hacking skills. Instead, attackers profit by deceiving victims into sending assets to fraudulent wallet addresses.

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