[HN Gopher] Nvidia Fires Back at Hackers, Encrypting Stolen Data...
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Nvidia Fires Back at Hackers, Encrypting Stolen Data and Ransomed
Their Systems
Author : palebluedot
Score : 35 points
Date : 2022-02-26 21:53 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (wccftech.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (wccftech.com)
| kayamon wrote:
| EVERYONE!!! NVIDIA ARE CRIMINALS!!!!!!!! SOME DAYS
| AGO WE CONDUCTED A ATTACK AGAINST NVIDIA AND STOLE 1TB OF
| CONFIDENTIAL DATA!!!!!! TODAY WE WOKE UP AND WE
| FOUND NVIDIA SCUM HAD ATTACKED *OUR* MACHINE WITH
| RANSOMWARE........ LUCKILY WE HAD A BACKUP BUT WHY
| THE FUCK THEY THINK THEY CAN CONNECT TO OUR PRIVATE
| MACHINE AND INSTALL RANDOMWARE!!!!!!!!!
|
| lol.
| rmbyrro wrote:
| Is this the basis for the "hack-bacl" story or did Nvidia
| confirm that?
|
| Because it looks to me a kid was trying to joke on social
| media.
|
| And also, what hacker uses Windows?
| Friday_ wrote:
| now private companies are allowed to hack? Or?
| tomatotomato37 wrote:
| No, but who's going to prosecute?
| smoyer wrote:
| The hackers attributed the reverse attack to NVidia but where's
| the proof? I doubt NVidia is going to put out a press release
| (if they committed the alleged act.)
| smoldesu wrote:
| What's the ransomware team going to do? Complain to the
| authorities? Sue?
| QuikAccount wrote:
| No but the beauty of this is that Nvidia is absolutely going to
| deny this and in order for them to get someone to prosecute and
| show proof that Nvidia hacked them back they would have to turn
| themselves over for their own crime which they obviously aren't
| going to do.
| salawat wrote:
| They could always do a plea bargain for immunity. After all,
| no one wants corporate scale misbehavior like that.
| Friday_ wrote:
| I also think theres no proof that any of this happened, only
| post on twitter that claims someone has photo of south
| african group claim it hacked nvidia.
| HWR_14 wrote:
| Not for want of making it legal. The Active Cyber Defense
| Certainty Act (ACDC) has been proposed to the House of
| Representatives several times. It would make retaliatory
| hacking legal under some scheme. It has never made it out of
| committee.
|
| In US terms, that means one or a small group of Representatives
| (in this case 18) proposed such a law. It got referred to the
| subgroup in charge of vetting proposed laws in that specialty
| area (in this case the subcommittee of Judiciary called the
| Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security). From
| there, he wasn't able to convince them to even green light it
| for a full vote in the House of Representatives, let alone
| going to the Senate or becoming a law.
| rich_sasha wrote:
| At which point does a hack become criminal?
|
| Probing defences? Breaching defences? Accessing your own,
| stolen data? Downloading it? Downloading everything else?
|
| If I see the guy who stole my car, nick the car keys from his
| pocket and drive off, is that theft? What if my car also has
| his wallet, and I drive off with that?
| robbedpeter wrote:
| I gotta respect whatever quick thinking engineer flipped the
| script, and whatever corporate miracle that placed such a highly
| competent individual in a position where they could do something
| like this.
|
| You wouldn't think this skill set would be common at Nvidia-
| bravo!
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