Hackers pressure Nvidia to offer open source

A few days ago, graphics card giant Nvidia was hacked by the $ Lapsus group, which managed to seize the company’s sensitive data about technologies and products. Some of this has already been published by hackers, including source code for DLSS, algorithms for LHR block ciphers and information about future-generation graphics cards.

Now they are threatening to release another set of trade secrets if Nvidia does not agree to the new demands of the group, which this time are not being paid in cash. Instead, the hackers are demanding that Nvidia be released no later than Friday, March 4th Goes to open source For all graphics drivers for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. If Nvidia does not meet the requirements of the hackers, $ Lapsus will leak 250 GB of complete data for the company’s graphics and processor chips.

According to the hackers, they are present in all related files with extensions like .v and . vx and . vg and the like. However, it reveals relatively little about the contents of the files, even if the .v files are, for example, source code written in Verilog, a programming language for describing and creating digital circuits. This can be, for example, digital models at different stages of development. In the announcement directed at Nvidia, the group claims that they have all the information about the latest generation of the Geforce RTX 3000 series, including the RTX 3090 Ti, as well as upcoming launches.

If Nvidia agrees to this requirement, $Lapsus promises not to disclose the information. At the time of writing, Nvidia has not commented on the new situation or requirement. It may be virtually impossible for Nvidia to comply with the requirements, as some drivers will likely have parts that are not Nvidia’s intellectual property (IP). It will therefore need to be approved in several stages, which is probably not possible to implement in a couple of days.

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