The article lacks a lot of information unfortunately, but it makes it sound like the website (distribution channel) was the only part they are concerned about, which wouldn't be classed as major.<p>What I'd class as major would be some third party gaining access to NVIDIA's RTL designs and source code for their drivers for current and unreleased GPUs, but this hack doesn't sound remotely close to that. Luckily.
<a href="https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1497484483494354946" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1497484483494354946</a><p>LAPSU$ extortion group, a group operating out of South America, claim to have breached NVIDIA and exfiltrated over 1TB of proprietary data.<p>LAPSU$ claims NVIDIA performed a hack back and states NVIDIA has successfully* ransomed their machines.
Putting on my Paranoia hat: what if some aggressor indeed was able to introduce code into the Nvidia drivers, which - if put on enough systems - would cripple the ability to (re-)train Ai systems which might be used in military defense systems. What if - even worse - people decided to use Nvidia hardware in the inference systems as well…<p>Putting down the paranoia hat.
Happy weekend.