The group behind the Nvidia hack asks for a million dollars for the tool to disable the LHR

For the past 6 days, NVIDIA has been the talk of the town as it was attacked by the Lapsus$ hacker group, who are releasing sensitive information. The group previously stated that it would provide access to data from LHR software and firmware. And now they say that unless NVIDIA pays more than $1 million, they will sell the tool to remove this limitation to the highest bidder.

NVIDIA LHR reduces mining capabilities by up to 50 percent. If what Lapsus$ says this tool would remove the performance limiter for Ethereum mining. While this is great news for miners, let’s remember that NVIDIA created LHR to decrease the popularity of the company’s GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards in the crypto mining community, something that didn’t happen, but it doesn’t matter.

“The only real way to buy our LHR bypass is to send us a private message on Telegram. We do not have any profile on another social network.

Send a message to one of the administrators to discuss it.

Minimum price: 1 million dollars and % of the fee”

Hackers claim to have the tools to remove LHR, including GPU drivers and firmware, in their hands.

However, with GPU-based Ethereum mining going strong in the current market, the company’s GeForce RTX 30 reserves remain out of stock. Some GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards continue to sell for double their MSRP (launch price). And that in 2022 the prices were falling little by little.

The price that the pirates put is 1 million dollars for the tool to liquidate LHR, the million dollar question is and it is not redundant, who will pay, NVIDIA or the miners?

NVIDIA probably won’t pay hackers that amount. The company has until this Friday to respond, or Lapsus$ “will release all the information.”