A group of hackers gained access to Nvidia’s confidential information
A hacker group claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on Nvidia on February 26, 2022, and demanded the release of an open source GPU driver.
Nvidia confirmed on February 26, 2022 (March 27, 1400) that it has been attacked by cyber and now hackers are disclosing the personal data of employees and the confidential information of this company on the Internet after a week. On February 23, 2022, Nvidia became aware of a cyber attack by hackers. This is not the first time that the company’s intelligence data has been attacked; However, according to Verge, Nvidia claims that this attack will not disrupt the business or the ability to provide services to the company’s customers.
The hacking group Lapsus $ claimed responsibility for the attack and asked Nvidia to release its drivers in the open source so as not to leak further information about the company. There is no information yet that Nvidia has accepted the hackers’ request. The company has said it will work with cybersecurity experts to respond to the attack, and intends to make improvements to its platform security.
The hacker group Lapsus $ claims to have about one terabyte of data from Nvidia; The stolen hardware folder from the company alone is 250 GB in size and contains information about all of Nvidia’s most recent GPUs, including the RTX 3090 Ti.
In a previous message, the group threatened Nvidia that it would disclose the stolen data if it did not remove its graphics card supply limit.
Lapsus $ made a new request on March 1, 2022, asking Nvidia to permanently release its GPU drivers in full open source:
We ask Nvidia to commit to the open source release of its GPU drivers.
The hacker group gave Nvidia until Friday, March 4, 2014, to decide whether to accept or reject the request.
Toby Lewis, director of threat analysis at Darktrace, described the cyber-attack as follows:
The hacker group’s previous intentions and the use of Spanish and Portuguese in previous blackmail notes indicate that the group operates outside of South America.
