The hacker has become the hacked, at least if this latest report of NVIDIA’s retaliation is to be believed.
Just yesterday, we reported on The Telegraph’s report claiming that NVIDIA had suffered a cyber-attack. NVIDIA didn’t provide any details, but the company’s statement that it was « investigating an incident » was admission enough. As it stood last night, it seemed clear something had happened, but we didn’t know whodunnit—or why. Well, now we do. Multiple sources on Twitter, including cybersecurity monitoring group DarkTracer, are reporting that the relatively new Lapsus ransomware gang has taken responsibility for the hack. The group claims to have some 1TB of NVIDIA files, and says that it will leak them to the web, possibly in 5 separate releases, if NVIDIA doesn’t pay an unspecified sum « on or before Friday.
