Hacker group threatens to expose Nvidia driver and firmware data
Previously, Nvidia suffered a ransomware attack by a hacker group, and its internal systems were compromised, which forced it to temporarily shut down some parts of the system. It is understood that hackers appear to have gained access to the email accounts of Nvidia employees, leading to a data breach of more than 1TB. Although Nvidia has not officially confirmed the incident, it has confirmed to the media that it is under investigation and evaluation.
To make matters worse, it is rumored that the hacker group is selling LHR V2 bypass for GA102 / GA104 GPUs, in order to coerce Nvidia to remove the relevant restrictions on its own. This shows that the hacker group may have found a corresponding method to lift the hash rate limit of the GeForce RTX 30 LHR series. Nvidia is clearly not engaged in any form of contact with the group, which may lead to the risk of the related LHR cracking algorithm being shared.
The hacker group has released some of the material, which seems to be very credible. The note here is that no one should download these leaked data for any reason. According to the hacker group, Nvidia also tried to hack the group back and encrypt the stolen data, but Nvidia’s countermeasures didn’t work because the data had been already preserved in other copies.
