The week of February 26, a report showing that NVIDIA, a hardware company focused on video and chip manufacturing, was attacked with ransomware, leaking around 1 TB of data of the company. However, it retaliated and hacked the attackers.
The document of VX Undergroundshowed the source of the attack, which was attributed to LAPSU$, a group of Latin American hackers, who stole information by passing through NVIDIA’s security filters. However, the response to the attack was successful, according to the same document, managing to encrypt this same information and the equipment from which it was made.
However, the attacking computers were in a VM environment, so encrypting their computers is impossible. On the other hand, what he did achieve this countermeasure was to prevent the information stolen from NVIDIA from being replicatedsince the decryption process would require more resources than those applied to remove it.
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Despite the event and the result, NVIDIA has not publicly accepted this report.. At the moment, they only accepted to be investigating what happened, but according to the information obtained by VX Undergroundthe group achieved the hack thanks to an access window in the mailing service due to the carelessness of its employees.
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This also explains the Issues of NVIDIA and its services by email on both February 26 and 27, 2022. On the other hand, it is believed that attacks were also made on the code of the graphics card driversbut the scope of the hack is unknown.
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