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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[linuxares]

Switch Pro?

 

[duwen]

So, not ransomware, just a good old fashioned hack.
Actual ransomware would just encrypt the unfortunate persons files requiring payment to obtain the decrypter... this is just theft of data via a hack with a 'ransom' attached in the form of blackmail.

 

[tech3475]

One potential problem with their threat is that outside of places like China, NK and maybe Russia, they’ll be useless for actual use similar to the Gigaleaks for emulators.

Although it would be nice if Nvidia did comply, even if it’s not GPL but still useful for e.g. Linux.

 

[pedro702]

Switch Pro?

could probably be switch 2 maybe and they are already doing the testing since it will be a big diference imo, aparentyly the rumours isthis device will be as powerful as a ps4 so maybe they are already developing switch 2 to release in 2 or 3 years.

 

[linuxares]

could probably be switch 2 maybe and they are already doing the testing since it will be a big diference imo, aparentyly the rumours isthis device will be as powerful as a ps4 so maybe they are already developing switch 2 to release in 2 or 3 years.

Probably.

Super Switch Pro ;D

 

[HideoKojima]

They probably injected a code in the next gen Switch 2 GPU so that it will be hacked just like Tegra. Good news overall

 

[FR0ZN]

I wonder if the Switch/Shield/Tegra/Whatever drivers src is in there.
Those should be portable to Windows, so that we might get Windows running on the Switch

 

[Viri]

Switch Pro?

Probably Switch 2. They've probably been working on that since the Switch released.

 

[HideoKojima]

Probably.

Super Switch Pro ;D

Super Switch Pro Deluxe XD

 

[Jiehfeng]

I've no idea how it feels to suffer from a hack, but this LAPSUS$ sounds like a serious disease. Get well soon Nvidia, sending thoughts and prayers.

 

[ZeroFX]

I'm keeping an eye on this one already, hopefully nicer things will surface.

 

[djpannda]

ouch, I wonder what the other demands are?

 

[Deleted member 585564]

this is why you dont create an account just to use your fucking hardware lol

who knows if they got any user information from people signing up for geforce experience

it's so sad that nvidia died of ligma

 

[Baoulettes]

Driver open sourced would be great for Linux I think, open sources is the way to go

 

[Noctosphere]

Super Switch Pro Deluxe XD

And knuckles

 

[DBlaze]

Driver open sourced would be great for Linux I think, open sources is the way to go

except they'd have to reverse engineer it and/or build it from the ground up if anything, because they can't just simply use it
reverse engineer granted on what is leaked, i haven't looked into it

 

[Xzi]

could probably be switch 2 maybe and they are already doing the testing since it will be a big diference imo, aparentyly the rumours isthis device will be as powerful as a ps4 so maybe they are already developing switch 2 to release in 2 or 3 years.

Well yeah, Steam Deck is already more powerful than a PS4, so I'd certainly hope they could at least match it in 2-3 years time. Then again, I feel like AMD is way ahead of Nvidia when it comes to portable SoCs.

 

[Deleted member 585564]

Driver open sourced would be great for Linux I think, open sources is the way to go

it's a no-brainer honestly... linux userbase is small right now but it's only going to increase with time... nvidia is complete garbage for linux users right now, open-source drivers lets people work on them to bring them on-par with amd and only increases nvidia's value, so more people would be willing to buy their hardware rather than their competitor's

except they'd have to reverse engineer it and/or build it from the ground up if anything, because they can't just simply use it
reverse engineer granted on what is leaked, i haven't looked into it

it specifically asks nvidia to release open-source under a foss license

that being said maybe the leaks could be used to improve nouveau drivers at least, in a clean-room fashion.

 

[XDel]

I wish these hackers would go after the current administration, The world Economic Forum, Soros, and a few others. Do some good. Might as well hit BLM while you are at it because they don't confess anything they're up to.