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More than 71,000 employee credentials were stolen and leaked online following a data breach suffered by US chipmaker giant Nvidia last month. The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service has added data belonging to 71,335 compromised accounts to its database on Wednesday.

Chipmaker giant Nvidia confirms that its network was breached in a cyberattack last week, giving intruders access to proprietary information data and employee login data. In an initial statement last week, Nvidia said it was investigating an incident that reportedly impacted some systems, causing an outage.

The Lapsus$ data extortion group has released what they claim to be data stolen from the Nvidia GPU designer. The first round of messages from Lapsus$ included a leak of what the actor said were hashed passwords of all Nvidia employees and a claim that the company hacked back to encrypt their virtual machine with the data.

The crooks said unless Nvidia releases a software update that removes its recent crypto-coin mining limiter, they will leak what sounds like internal hardware documents - a hw folder, specifically. NCC Group released figures indicating a huge jump in the use of ransomware, with America the top target at 53 per cent of monitored infections, and Europe at 30 per cent.

NCC Group released figures indicating a huge jump in the use of ransomware, with America the top target at 53 per cent of monitored infections, and Europe at 30 per cent. The top targets remain government organizations and the industrial sector, which account for around 20 per cent each of the total.

US chipmaker giant Nvidia confirmed today it's currently investigating an "Incident" that reportedly took down some of its systems for two days.Systems impacted in what looks like a cyberattack include the company's developer tools and email systems, as first reported by The Telegraph.

NVIDIA has released a security advisory detailing what products are affected by the Log4Shell vulnerability that is currently exploited in a wide range of attacks worldwide. vGPU Software License Server is impacted by CVE-2021-33228 and CVE-2021-45046 on versions 2021.07 and 2020.05 Update 1.

Cybercriminals are making strides towards attacks with malware that can execute code from the graphics processing unit of a compromised system. In a short post on a hacker forum, someone offered to sell the proof-of-concept for a technique they say keeps malicious code safe from security solutions scanning the system RAM. The seller provided only an overview of their method, saying that it uses the GPU memory buffer to store malicious code and execute code.

NVIDIA gaming graphics software called GeForce Experience, bundled with the chipmaker's popular GTX GPU, is flawed and opens the door to a remote attacker that can exploit the bug to steal or manipulate data on a vulnerable Windows computer. NVIDIA notified customers late last week of the bug and released a software patch for the flaw, which is present in its GeForce Experience Windows software.

Today, NVIDIA released the Game Ready WHQL Driver 471.11, and it now officially supports Windows 10 21H1, the May 2021 Update, for the first time. Previous Game Ready WHQL drivers had only supported up to Windows 10 20H2, the October 2020 Update.