Hacker group Lapsus$ has leaked the credentials of greater than 71,000 Nvidia employees after the corporate didn’t acquiesce to its calls for. The group stole the company information throughout a recent ransomware attack and threatened to launch it if Nvidia did not take away its cryptocurrency mining limiter (LHR) from its RTX 30-series video playing cards. Nvidia refused to take action, and the group has since issued one other demand and claims it’s going to launch much more information if Nvidia does not comply.
Earlier this week, Lapsus$ took credit score for the leak of the source code for DLSS and details about six supposed unannounced GPUs. Together with the demand to take away the 30-series mining limiter, the digital ransom be aware calls for that Nvidia make its RTX GPU drivers open supply.
The South American hacker group claimed to have had entry to Nvidia servers for over every week and managed to steal not less than 1TB of information throughout its ransomware assault. Nvidia confirmed with PC Mag {that a} “menace actor took worker credentials and a few Nvidia proprietary data from our programs and has begun leaking it on-line.”
Right this moment’s leak of worker credentials consists of worker e mail addresses and NTLM password hashes, which in accordance with Have I Been Pwned are already being “cracked and circulated inside the hacking group.” This appears to incorporate previous and present workers, since Nvidia listed its present workforce at 18,100 as of October 2020.
On Tuesday Lapsus$ amended its calls for and mentioned Nvidia has till Friday, March 4 to make all present and future GPU drivers open supply. If Nvidia does not comply, the group threatens to launch data relating to silicon chip information and what it known as “closely-guarded commerce secrets and techniques for graphics and laptop chipsets” in a public Telegram message group.
The ‘alternative’ the hackers are providing Nvidia reads like a be aware somebody like Kite Man or the Condiment King would depart on the Mayor of Gotham Metropolis’s laptop display screen. On the time of writing, Nvidia has seemingly not met the calls for of Lapsus$. Nvidia instructed PC Gamer in an announcement on February 28 that the incident is being investigated and “business actions proceed uninterrupted.” We reached out to Nvidia for remark once more relating to right now’s leak and can replace after we obtain a reply.
