The latest victim of a major ransomware attack appears to be Nvidia, as the tech giant confirmed that had been hacked. A group called LAPSUS$ took credit for hacking the company, claiming that they had accessed 1TB of sensitive and confidential information, with the intent to leak it to the public. According to initial reports, Nvidia had been hit with a ransomware attack, though an official statement from the company itself claims that it had been a security breach instead. Nvidia says it, "does not anticipate any disruption to our business or our ability to serve our customers as a result of the incident." despite leaks beginning to circulate online.

LAPSUS$ began to make demands saying they would refrain from posting more of the leak online if Nvidia followed their orders, which include making their GPU drivers open-source. The hacking group said the company has until Friday, March 4th to meet their requirements, otherwise, they will post "the complete silicon, graphics, ad computer chipset files for all recent Nvidia GPUs, including the RTX 3090 TI, and upcoming revisions".

As for what the hackers have already posted online in order to force Nvidia's hand, it seems like files relating to their exclusive Deep Learning Super Sampling 2.2 AI technology have been leaked. According to those who have gone through the leak, there are also files regarding an "NVN2", a possible successor to the NVN API used in the Nintendo Switch. While there is nothing concrete in the data, it has gotten online discourse about the theoretical Switch Pro brewing again once more.

NVIDIA leaks have "nvn2", which seems to be the graphics api for the Switch Pro, based on Ampere with ray tracing support and DLSS 2.2 pic.twitter.com/k6nEr31CcY

— Nikki™ (@NWPlayer123) March 1, 2022

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[saulopp]

Can´t say I feel bad for Nvidia after they handled the mining & scalper situation so badly.

 

[Xzi]

I wish these hackers would go after the current administration, The world Economic Forum, Soros, and a few others.

* But definitely don't go after XDel's boy Trump, or Trump's boy Putin, right? Oppression is freedom and all, so wake up sheeple! /s

 

[justansweringquestions]

good, fuck Nvidia and mega corporations

 

[osaka35]

yes, development of a new console begins when the old one is complete. long process. lots of development, innovation, planning, reaching agreements with various manufacturers, etc. many of the details can be changed throughout the process. it depends on how old the info in the...dump is as to how much can have changed.

with the switch being 5 years old, they'll already have these details mostly locked down. it'll be interesting to see what interesting twist they'll take with the switch 2, or if it'll be more of a switch advance situation.

 

[Hambrew]

If Adobe gets attacked this way, it'll be even funnier.

 

[Deleted member 532471]

This is not a ransomware, they were hacked :l

 

[chrisrlink]

If Adobe gets attacked this way, it'll be even funnier.

why they already killed Flash player and some good he***i games are flash games

 

[SeventhSon7]

Information wants to be free.

 

[NayrTheLovable]

This was honestly bound to happen soon, given how much they like to guard their stuff and how they handled the graphic card scalping

 

[ertaboy356b]

I have saved up for the switch successor. I almost bought a steam deck with that money but unfortunately, it's not available in my country lol. Come one Nintendo, give us the switch successor already. I hate playing Xenoblade in 360p.

 

[gnmmarechal]

Do you know who I am?

Do you know who you are?

 

[HarveyHouston]

Hacker: We have tons of info about your upcoming chips!
Nvidia: You know that we took all that stuff off and put it in a private network in our facility that is never connected to the internet, right?
Hacker:

Image made using imgflip.com's Meme Generator.

 

[Axmand]

Well, tomorrow its the day, let's see what happens...

 

[genxor]

They really expect nvidia to meet demands when they've already leaked some data? That just shows nv have zero guarantee the rest won't leak so why the hell would they opensource their drivers? They've probably just ruined any chance of that happening, though I can see nvidia making some kind of weak gesture towards the "open source community" for marketing's sake..

 

[xdarkmario]

Sorry but i HOPE they give in to the demands! because i am a "victim" of nvidia's stubbornness. im on linux and we dont have any open source support and its annoying. also the lack of osx drivers on nvidia (and apples hands) are ridiculous.

 

[smf]

They really expect nvidia to meet demands when they've already leaked some data? That just shows nv have zero guarantee the rest won't leak so why the hell would they opensource their drivers? They've probably just ruined any chance of that happening, though I can see nvidia making some kind of weak gesture towards the "open source community" for marketing's sake..

It's like saying to someone, cut off your arm or I'll cut it off.

You can't stop someone from doing something, but you can avoid inflicting damage on yourself.

 

[Elodain]

Let's be real though. We all know why they really want FOSS drivers available on all platforms.

So they and their crypto bros can legally review the code, see the hash limiters and other anti mining measures in place for consumer level gaming cards, have an easier time counteracting it, and buy up all the cards meant for gaming for their earth killing mining rigs.

Are they already doing that? Yes of course, but if they know how everything works and how to beat it in the snap of a finger they would have even MORE of a stranglehold on the market. If you think it's hard getting a GPU now just let these fucks at the source code and defeat every countermeasure Nvidia tries to make and see how many cards are getting in the hands of anyone that isn't a miner or willing to pay 100x MSRP.

My sympathies go out to those of you who have troubles with Closed source drivers, but if you think Nvidia going open source is a good idea you're nuts.

These guys aren't modern day Robin Hoods. This is for the good of their pockets not for the community.

 

[ShiroTheFrog]

Let's be real though. We all know why they really want FOSS drivers available on all platforms.

So they and their crypto bros can legally review the code, see the hash limiters and other anti mining measures in place for consumer level gaming cards, have an easier time counteracting it, and buy up all the cards meant for gaming for their earth killing mining rigs.

Are they already doing that? Yes of course, but if they know how everything works and how to beat it in the snap of a finger they would have even MORE of a stranglehold on the market. If you think it's hard getting a GPU now just let these fucks at the source code and defeat every countermeasure Nvidia tries to make and see how many cards are getting in the hands of anyone that isn't a miner or willing to pay 100x MSRP.

My sympathies go out to those of you who have troubles with Closed source drivers, but if you think Nvidia going open source is a good idea you're nuts.

These guys aren't modern day Robin Hoods. This is for the good of their pockets not for the community.

On the other hand, hackers releasing all files could get us cheap "knockoffs" of gpu's. 3060ti's shouldn't be more than 250Eur. All gpu companies made huge 20-30% bigger profits year to year. On consument's account obviously. Most people don't see that a miner buying 1000eur gpu's buys tens (6-19 per mobo) of gpu's but only 1 mobo, 1 cheap cpu, maybe 2 ram sticks and beefy PSU's per mining rig. Gamer buys entire platform, which typically equals gpu price. & often new monitor with that. If prices were more affordable, people would switch their platforms every 3 years more often than not.

 

[axicec]

Can´t say I feel bad for Nvidia after they handled the mining & scalper situation so badly.

this was literally miners who hacked them

they had a cry cause nvidia made LHR cards

miners deserve the rope

 

[axicec]

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