NVIDIA RTX LHR Unlocker was actually pure malware

On February 22 we announced that the software, NVIDIA RTX LHR BIOS v2supposedly promised to modify the BIOS of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 video cards, removing the limiters, thus allowing you to mine Ethereum with maximum performance, however, it was discovered that the software really only serves to infect our PCs with malwareas discovered Hassan Mujtabapublisher of the Wccftech website, and who posted the discovery on his Twitter account, as well as a video showing the malware.

As we said in the previous note, everything was very rare.

RTX LHR v2 Unlocker developer Sergey claimed he could modify graphics card firmware and remove the mining performance limiter that Nvidia had introduced precisely to make its cards LHR (light hash rate), thus making them less attractive to miners.

In addition to the RTX 30, the software supported the RTX A2000, A4000, A4500 and A5000 models, and according to the tests carried out, the mining speeds could go from 49 MH/s (RTX 3060) to 115 MH/s (RTX 3080). Ti) depending on the plate model used in the process.

Regarding the impact of the malware, so far we only know that the ‘LHRUnlocker Install.msi’ file infects powershell.exe , but it does not immediately cause any critical damage to the system.

Luckily, the scam was quickly discovered, so to speak, and the links on Sergey’s GitHub page were deleted.

Source: Videocardz