Nvidia Is Still Investigating the Incident
Nvidia has reportedly been “completely compromised” by a cyber attack. Apparently, there was a malicious network intrusion that gave the graphics firm’s internal systems a lot of trouble. This includes email and developer tools which have been suffering from outages since the middle of the week.
“LAPU$ extortion group, a group operating out of South America, claim to have breached Nvidia and exfiltrated over 1TB of proprietary data,” Vx-underground wrote on social media. Vx-underground is a group that shares samples of malware and viruses online.
According to them, LAPU$ allegedly performed a ransomware attack on Nvidia’s internal servers and that the latter performed a counter hack and ransomed the former’s machines. “Some days ago we conducted an attack against Nvidia and stole 1TB of confidential data,” the hackers reportedly stated. “Today we woke up and we found Nvidia scum had attacked our machine with ransomware.”
“Luckily we had a backup,” they added. “But why the fk they think they can connect to our private machine and install ransomware?!”
At the moment, Nvidia has not confirmed that such attack happened. However, they did say that they are investigating the situation.
“We are investigating an incident,” said Spokesman Hector Marinez. “Our business and commercial activities continue uninterrupted.”
It remains unclear if any data has been stolen or deleted from Nvidia. It is also unknown if the attack affected customers or if it merely disrupted the firm’s systems.
“We are still working to evaluate the nature and scope of the event and do not have additional information to share at this time,” Nvidia wrote.
“The ultimate concern is that somebody may have put something in one of the software updates,” said a cyber security expert. “They will be going through trying to make sure to see if there is any indication that anything has been changed in their software that they then shipped to their clients.”
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