There are also reports that NVIDIA has counterattacked the ransomware attack after being damaged by the ransomware attack.
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It turned out that a major American semiconductor maker, NVIDIA, was damaged by a ransomware attack, and part of the company's system was down for up to two days. Some news media reports that NVIDIA has counterattacked the principal group of cyber attacks.
US microchip powerhouse Nvidia hit by cyber attack
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/02/25/us-microchip-powerhouse-nvidia-hit-cyber-attack/
Nvidia Breach Seen as Ransomware Attack Unconnected to Ukraine --Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-25/nvidia-is-investigating-cyber-attack-but-business-uninterrupted
GPU giant Nvidia is investigating a potential cyber attack
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/gpu-giant-nvidia-is-investigating-a-potential-cyberattack/
The Telegraph, a British general newspaper, reported on February 25 that NVIDIA had shut down some systems for two days due to a malicious network intrusion. The day before that day, Russia started invading Ukraine, raising concerns about hacking from Russia to Western countries, but it seems that Russia is not involved in this cyber attack on NVIDIA. It is said that it is.
NVIDIA insiders describe the attack as 'completely compromised.' However, it is unknown at the time of writing the article whether this simply means a system outage or even leaking customer information. The period of NVIDIA's cyberattack coincided with the time when the company's mailing system was malfunctioning, so hacking cybercriminals were breaking into the company's employee email accounts. There is also a report that it may have been.
In a statement to the media released yesterday, NVIDIA said, 'Our business and commercial activities continue uninterrupted. We are working to assess the nature and extent of the impact of this case. There is no other additional information that can be shared at this time. '
On February 26, vx-underground , a Twitter account that publishes malware codes and reports, said, 'LAPSU $, a threatening group operating in South America, invaded NVIDIA and stole more than 1TB of unique data. LAPSU $ also claims that NVIDIA has hacked back and succeeded in hostileizing their machines, 'said the ransomware group, which appears to be the data stolen. I tweeted the screenshot.
LAPSU $ extortion group, a group operating out of South America, claim to have breached NVIDIA and exfiltrated over 1TB of proprietary data.
— Vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 26, 2022
LAPSU $ claims NVIDIA performed a hack back and states NVIDIA has successful ransomed their machines
Intel and photos courtesy of @ S0ufi4n3 pic.twitter.com/fXcTNqgIpW
PC Gamer, a news site dealing with game information, said about the counterattack by NVIDIA, 'Strangely, LAPSU $ seems to have been hit by a ransomware attack in retaliation from NVIDIA. I don't think a company with a scale of 69 trillion yen will do it, but as the threat of ransomware increases, companies may be taking measures that are not bound by preconceived ideas. ' did.
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