Hackers who breached Nvidia’s database last month, stealing more than 71,000 employee’s information, have requested that the chipmaker allows its graphics cards to mine cryptocurrencies faster or face the imminent release of the company’s precious source code.
The Lapsus$ extortion gang, who claimed responsibility for the attack, gave conditions to Nvidia to avoid leaking the company’s sensitive data in their possession.
Lapsus$ has already published one tranche of leaked files, which among other things included the usernames and cryptographic hashes for 71,335 of Nvidia’s employees.
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The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service said the breach, which affects a total of 71,335 people, involves “email addresses and NTLM password hashes, many of which were subsequently cracked and circulated within the hacking community.”
Nvidia, which wasn’t quick to acknowledge the incident, confirmed on March 1st that its network was breached last month, with the attackers gaining access to employees’ login data and proprietary information. The company told BleepingComputer Tuesday that it detected “a cybersecurity incident which impacted IT resources” on February 23rd, but added that it found no evidence of a ransomware attack.
“However, we are aware that the threat actor took employee credentials and some NVIDIA proprietary information from our systems and has begun leaking it online. Our team is working to analyze that information,” Nvidia told BleepingComputer.
“We do not anticipate any disruption to our business or our ability to serve our customers as a result of the incident.”
Lapsus$ claimed they stole as much as 1TB of data in the breach that impacted Nvidia’s systems, causing a two-day outage. The group has threatened to leak hardware specifications info unless lite hash rate (LHR) limitations from GeForce RTX 30 Series firmware were not removed.
Lapsus$ also asked Nvidia to commit to open-sourcing their GPU drivers for Windows, macOS, and Linux devices until Friday, March 4th, to avoid having stolen information on all recent GPUs, including the RTX 3090Ti, leaked online.
‘Nvidia introduced LHR in February 2021 with the launch of its GeForce RTX 3060 models. Three months later, the company brought LHR to its GeForce RTX 3080, 3070, and 3060 Ti graphics cards. The reason: to make the cards less desirable to people mining Ethereum and possibly other types of cryptocurrencies. In recent years, the soaring prices of cryptocurrencies have created enormous demand for the cards because the cards are generally much faster and more efficient in performing the intensive computations required during the mining process.’
Lapsus$ went outside the usual financial ransom hackers demand to make the highly unusual demand: remove a feature known as LHR, short for “Lite Hash Rate,” or see the further leaking of stolen data.
“We decided to help mining and gaming community,” Lapsus$ members wrote in broken English. “We want nvidia to push an update for all 30 series firmware that remove every lhr limitations otherwise we will leak hw folder. If they remove the lhr we will forget about hw folder (it’s a big folder). We both know lhr impact mining and gaming.”
LHR works by looking for specific attributes of the Ethereum mining algorithm. When one of those attributes is found, LHR limits the hash rate, which dictates mining efficiency, by around 50 percent. “We designed GeForce GPUs for gamers, and gamers are clamoring for more,” Nvidia officials wrote when unveiling LHR.
Lapsus$ on Tuesday, added to its demand. The group now wants Nvidia to commit to making its GPU drivers completely open source.
“So, NVIDIA, the choice is yours! Either:
–Officially make current and all future drivers for all cards open source, while keeping the Verilog and chipset trade secrets… well, secret
OR
–Not make the drivers open source, making us release the entire silicon chip files so that everyone not only knows your driver’s secrets, but also your most closely-guarded trade secrets for graphics and computer chipsets too!
YOU HAVE UNTIL FRIDAY, YOU DECIDE!” they wrote.
Nvidia has not responded to the demands and it’s not clear, given its body language to the hack, if the chipmaker will yield to the demands. We still have until the end of today to find out.
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