Nvidia Hit by Major Cyberattack
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Nvidia Hit by Major Cyberattack
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#2The article lacks a lot of information unfortunately, but it makes it sound like the website (distribution channel) was the only part they are concerned about, which wouldn't be classed as major.
What I'd class as major would be some third party gaining access to NVIDIA's RTL designs and source code for their drivers for current and unreleased GPUs, but this hack doesn't sound remotely close to that. Luckily.
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#3My guess is it's Linux user group trying to finally liberate the source code for their graphics card drivers.
/humor
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#4Russians?
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#5My guess is it's Linux user group trying to finally liberate the source code for their graphics card drivers. /humor
Ah, the notorious Penguin Collective.
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#6My guess is it's Linux user group trying to finally liberate the source code for their graphics card drivers. /humor
"We'll send them AMD"
"Ammunition of Mass Destruction?"
"No..."
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#7Putting on my Paranoia hat: what if some aggressor indeed was able to introduce code into the Nvidia drivers, which - if put on enough systems - would cripple the ability to (re-)train Ai systems which might be used in military defense systems. What if - even worse - people decided to use Nvidia hardware in the inference systems as well…
Putting down the paranoia hat. Happy weekend.
Re: Nvidia Hit by Major Cyberattack
#8Putting on my Paranoia hat: what if some aggressor indeed was able to introduce code into the Nvidia drivers, which - if put on enough systems - would cripple the ability to (re-)train Ai systems which might be used in military defense systems. What if - even worse - people decided to use Nvidia hardware in the inference systems as well… Putting down the paranoia hat. Happy weekend.
That's just a very very weird though. Sry but no one just hacks into Nvidias driver dev department and injects complex code to cripple ml training.
It's just nothing someone can just do. And there is also nothing which will prevent Nvidia to debug the ml issue and revert the change.
Re: Nvidia Hit by Major Cyberattack
#9Putting on my Paranoia hat: what if some aggressor indeed was able to introduce code into the Nvidia drivers, which - if put on enough systems - would cripple the ability to (re-)train Ai systems which might be used in military defense systems. What if - even worse - people decided to use Nvidia hardware in the inference systems as well… Putting down the paranoia hat. Happy weekend.
That's just a very very weird though. Sry but no one just hacks into Nvidias driver dev department and injects complex code to cripple ml training. It's just nothing someone can just do. And there is also nothing which will prevent Nvidia to debug the ml issue and revert the change.
AI aside, hacking into the driver’s build process to inject hidden backdoors into the drivers could be a realist attack.
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#10Russians?
Well, it has potential for a singularly unpleasant watering hole attack, few states have a blindingly obvious track record of it, and exactly one of those is in the acute phase of open acts of aggression warfare...
Seems pretty clear what's the highest priority working hypothesis until the evidence is in.
Number two could well be entertaining ideas about shaving a couple of items off their conquest list while the action is keeping the World busy though, and if so both trojanizing a particularly poorly defended part of billions of computing devices worldwide and securing fuller access to software and plans for "AI accelerators" would seem desirable.