After a cyber attack offline NVidia's system for two days last week, the Hacking Group behind the early breech has now revealed that it has allegedly gained access to more than 1TB of data from the tech veteran.
When the attack was originally stated on Friday, there was not much information beyond the fact that Nvidia was “investigating an incident.” However, over the weekend, there were some highly interesting developments related to the situation, including an alleged vengeance by Nvidia.
Cyber breech description reveals the range of hack
First, the Hacking Group Lapsus $ states that Hack Hack got entry into NVDia's servers for the whole week. As a result of this unprecedented access, it says that it was capable of extracting 1TB of data, including skimatics, drivers, firmware and more.
“We also have documentation, personal equipment and SDK, and everything about Falcon [microprocessors for NVIDIA GPUs based on a custom architecture]We know what is valuable, ”the South American group explained on Telegram.
As VideocardzThe group has released the first batch of leakage. Sources of publishing indicate that “the partial data included in the package matches claims.”
An important piece of data arising from the hack group claims that it is now in its possession, the LHR V2 bypass for the GA102-GA104 GPU. As reported by videoocards, it means that Lapsus is located on the main algorithm used to apply $ Cryptocurrency Mining hash rate to limiter, which NVidia applied for its RTX 30-series graphics card in 2021. It is currently selling the LHR V2 bypass, but has been added that the group hopes that NVIDIA removes it soon.
Recently, a device proved to be a malware, a tool that was claimed to remove mining boundaries on various NVidia GPUs. But if these hackers claim that they steal the algorithm behind the limit, then a program of unlocking full mining performance for some most popular video cards can be very well physical in the near future.
As disclosing the range of hack in its telegram posts, the group stated that in an attempt to “help” mining and gaming communities, it wants NVidia to carry forward an update for all 30-series firmware that removes every LHR border. ” If the company does not meet this specific demand, Lapsus $ threatens to leak $ “HW folder”.
In addition, Nvidia must fail to contact hackers, the group “action will take action.” Although the exact objective behind hack may be related to as much monetary value extract as possible, the attack from Lapsus $ stress is not politically motivated, nor is it state-proposed.
Nvidia fights back
In an interesting twist of events over the weekends, NVIDIA seems to be well fighting to hack hackers. according to a Tweet from vx-expartergroundAs Reported by KitguruTeam Green performed “a hack back” and later “ransom” [the group’s] Machines. A statement by the group further explained on NVIDIA actions that the firm had encrypted its hard drive.
Lapsus $ commented on NVIDIA's alleged retaliation Another telegram postAccess to GPU and CHIP manufacturer's VPN requires PC “to be enrolled in MDM (mobile device management)”. Due to this method, who were initially used by hackers to infiltrate Nvidia's system, the firm was able to connect to a VM ” [virtual machine] We use. “
“Yes, they successfully encrypted the data. However we have a backup,” said this.
Either way, it is unheard of this nature to start its own defecation for a company of Nvidia, whether it is as hack or not.
For the acceptance of Nvidia's alleged exploits, it confirmed that it was “investigating an incident” on Friday. Beyond that entry, Lapsus $ said the company “filed” [an] abuse report.”
Somewhere else, as Reported by BloombergNVIDIA said that “business and commercial activities continue uninterrupted. We are still working to evaluate the nature and scope of the event and there is no additional knowledge to share at this time.” Additionally, a Bloomberg source, familiar to the case, said the cyber violation “looks relatively modest and is not fuel from geopolitical stresses.”
Cyberattack news failed to negatively affect NVIDIA stock prices. Instead, when the market closed on Friday, the stocks actually increased by 1.7% to $ 241.57. He said, Bloomberg said how the stock for chipmaker (valuable in the north of $ 600 billion with the company) is on a bottom trend during 2022 (thus to be 18% accurate so far).
Hack arrives at a time when the acquisition of NVidia's proposed $ 66 billion British Chip designer arm was officially canceled amidst acute regulatory pressure from several government bodies.