News Nvidia Hacker Seeks $1 Million for LHR Ethereum Bypass

[Admin]

South American hacking group Lapsus$ is giving Nvidia until Friday to meet its demands.

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[King_V]

Almost seems like they're making a half-hearted, and clumsy, attempt at painting themselves as the good guys.

They got caught, they got hacked themselves, and, while it appears they had their data backed up, they seem . . kind of desperate?

They're giving off a very weird dynamic here, but their talk of wanting things open source, or wanting to free Nvidia GPUs from mining restrictions seem exceptionally insincere.

 

[spongiemaster]

A million dollars is nothing to Nvidia. They should ship these guys a million dollars in pennies just for laughs. Let's see them try to spend that.

 

[King_V]

Pretty sure the ransom is demanded in crypto... because it's untraceable. Well, at least, less easily traceable.

It's probably cheaper, and far more cathartic, to just hack them some more. Sort of like the way NewEgg used to call the bluffs of patent-trolls, and forcibly drag them through the entire expensive legal process.

 

[hasten]

A million dollars is nothing to Nvidia. They should ship these guys a million dollars in pennies just for laughs. Let's see them try to spend that.

You think that they couldnt launder cash in the carribean or in their own state? Its not that hard to do. They will lose a decent percentage, but think of it as tax. Heck, HSBC used to fudge OFAC lookups to launder terrorist funds. BSA helps but doesnt even stop it in the US.

 

[renz496]

A million dollars is nothing to Nvidia. They should ship these guys a million dollars in pennies just for laughs. Let's see them try to spend that.

Some people said the hacking group intend to sell that LHR unlock to miners. That 1 million referring to the amount of they ask of miner if they want it.

 

[jacob249358]

Scammer gets scammed, they instantly regret it. Welcome to the dmcu. (Dhar Mann cinematic universe)

 

[hotaru251]

Nvidia wont do it.
likely a yr until next gen gpu's tops.
and they get paid no matter what (mining or not) and LHR was only done to appease the masses who couldnt get GPU.


there is literally no reason for em to pay.

 

[Friesiansam]

Nvidia will not pay. Paying a blackmailer just encourages them to do it more and, would you trust them to do what they say they will, following payment?

 

[InvalidError]

Nvidia doesn't give a damn that LHR gets broken, more sustained 3000-series GPU sales without having to drop prices for them and AIBs. Even leaking the design files and drivers may not matter much since you need to be a relatively large company to have the infrastructure to use them. Anyone using a meaningful chunk of stolen IP is going to get found out in short order and this could quickly end in corporate suicide.

 

[jkflipflop98]

You think that they couldnt launder cash in the carribean or in their own state? Its not that hard to do. They will lose a decent percentage, but think of it as tax. Heck, HSBC used to fudge OFAC lookups to launder terrorist funds. BSA helps but doesnt even stop it in the US.

I think the point is they'd have to shovel up about 200 tons of copper off the street to spend their money.