Nvidia hackers selling software unlock for graphics card crypto mining limiters

A hacking radical that infiltrated Nvidia servers past period is attempting to merchantability bundle that could unlock crypto mining hash complaint limiters connected the firm’s flagship graphics cards.

A South American hacking radical going by the sanction LAPSUS$ claims to person stolen a terabyte of information from Nvidia servers successful precocious February. The radical is present offering bundle successful the signifier of a customized operator to unlock limiters the institution has enactment connected its high-end graphics cards.

Nvidia stated that it became alert of the incidental connected Feb. 23, and stated, according to reports connected Mar. 2:

“We are alert that the menace histrion took worker credentials and immoderate Nvidia proprietary accusation from our systems and has begun leaking it online.”

The cybercriminal radical has been trying to extort the California-based institution done a Telegram channel. In summation to leaking delicate idiosyncratic information that it pilfered, the radical is offering to bypass limits connected Nvidia’s RTX 3000 bid graphics cards to alteration higher hash rates for Ethereum mining.

On March 1, PCMag revealed screenshots from the group’s transmission which stated “this leak contains root codification and highly confidential/secret information from assorted parts of Nvidia GPU driver, Falcon, LHR, and such.”

LHR refers to “Lite Hash Rate” which is simply a limiter the institution introduced to de-tune its GPUs successful 2021 to deter crypto miners from snapping them each up, leaving immoderate for its halfway market of PC gamers.

The hacking radical is besides attempting to clasp Nvidia to ransom with demands that it region the limiter from each RTX 3000 bid cards and marque drivers open-source. It has fixed the institution until March 4 to marque a decision.

Related: Nvidia again limiting crypto mining connected its RTX-3060 gaming graphics card

Graphics paper prices and availability has been a bane for gamers for the past 2 years, escalating their angst against crypto miners and the manufacture successful general.

High-end GPUs tin outgo upwards of $1,800 if successful stock, and lower-spec models are precise hard to travel by starring to the emergence of a used-card marketplace wherever prices for older graphics cards often transcend what they outgo primitively successful definite regions.