According to VideoCardz, hackers from Lbbabo.netSU$ demanded that NVIDIA immediately make all GeForce drivers for Windows, macOS and Linux open source and distribute them under a free license. If the company does not do this by March 4, then the hackers will publish in the public domain the confidential developments of the company - full specifications of the chipsets, their schematics, the design of current and new NVIDIA GPUs, as well as RTX 3090 Ti Verilog files.
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The Lbbabo.netSU$ hackers previously released the source code for the NVIDIA drivers, and then released the source code for the NVIDIA DLSS 2.2 image scaling technology, including C++ system files and developer guides. Some of this NVIDIA data, such as the SDK, was previously published by the company on GitHub.
The Lbbabo.netSU$ hackers explained that approximately 250 GB of the 1 TB of data they stole contains information, firmware, files, and schematics from NVIDIA's current and new hardware developments.
On February 26, the media reported that NVIDIA is investigating and analyzing the scope and consequences of a cyber attack (including using a ransomware virus) on some of its systems. The incident happened at the end of February. Currently, work within the company is carried out as usual. NVIDIA cybersecurity specialists did not disclose whether attackers gained access to classified information or to customer and partner data during the intrusion into the company's network.
Later it became known that Lbbabo.netSU$ hackers hacked NVIDIA's internal network and copied more than 1 TB of the company's critical data. NVIDIA tried to hack and encrypt the copied sensitive data to prevent its distribution. She almost managed to do it, but backup helped the hackers. After that, the hackers start spreading parts of the leak in the closed community. For example, they have published the source code for the NVIDIA drivers.
On February 28, hackers from Lbbabo.netSU$ revealed that the stolen NVIDIA data contained drivers, circuits, firmware, and an algorithm for the RTX 30 hash limiter. They began to distribute part of the leak in the public domain. Also in the leak was an algorithm for bypassing the mining limiter for cards with a halved Ethereum hashrate for GA102 and GA104 chips of NVIDIA solutions based on the Ampere architecture.
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