Latest GPU news

Arm warns of actively exploited flaw in Mali GPU kernel drivers

Arm has issued a security bulletin warning of a memory-related vulnerability in Bifrost and Valhall GPU kernel drivers that is being exploited in the wild.
- Bill Toulas
- June 10, 2024
- 06:53 PM
- 4
AMD, Apple, Qualcomm GPUs leak AI data in LeftoverLocals attacks

A new vulnerability dubbed 'LeftoverLocals' affecting graphics processing units from AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, and Imagination Technologies allows retrieving data from the local memory space.
- Bill Toulas
- January 17, 2024
- 10:32 AM
- 1
Bounty offered for secret NSA seeds behind NIST elliptic curves algo

A bounty of $12,288 has been announced for the first person to crack the NIST elliptic curves seeds and discover the original phrases that were hashed to generate them.
- Bill Toulas
- October 07, 2023
- 10:12 AM
- 3
Arm warns of Mali GPU flaws likely exploited in targeted attacks

Arm in a security advisory today is warning of an actively exploited vulnerability affecting the widely-used Mali GPU drivers.
- Bill Toulas
- October 02, 2023
- 12:37 PM
- 0
Modern GPUs vulnerable to new GPU.zip side-channel attack

Researchers from four American universities have developed a new GPU side-channel attack that leverages data compression to leak sensitive visual data from modern graphics cards when visiting web pages.
- Bill Toulas
- September 27, 2023
- 10:06 AM
- 3
Windows cryptomining attacks target graphic designer's high-powered GPUs

Cybercriminals are leveraging a legitimate Windows tool called 'Advanced Installer' to infect the computers of graphic designers with cryptocurrency miners.
- Bill Toulas
- September 07, 2023
- 11:46 AM
- 0
CISA warns govt agencies to patch actively exploited Android driver

CISA ordered federal agencies today to patch a high-severity Arm Mali GPU kernel driver privilege escalation flaw added to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities and addressed with this month's Android security updates.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 07, 2023
- 02:54 PM
- 0
CISA orders agencies to patch Backup Exec bugs used by ransomware gang

On Friday, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) increased by five its list of security issues that threat actors have used in attacks, three of them in Veritas Backup Exec exploited to deploy ransomware.
- Ionut Ilascu
- April 07, 2023
- 05:07 PM
- 0
Microsoft says Intel driver bug crashes apps on Windows PCs

Microsoft says apps using DirectX are crashing on Windows systems with outdated Intel drivers after installing November 2022 cumulative updates.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 10, 2023
- 11:37 AM
- 1
NVIDIA releases GPU driver update to fix 29 security flaws

NVIDIA has released a security update for its GPU display driver for Windows, containing a fix for a high-severity flaw that threat actors can exploit to perform, among other things, code execution and privilege escalation.
- Bill Toulas
- November 30, 2022
- 11:27 AM
- 0
Fake MSI Afterburner targets Windows gamers with miners, info-stealers

Windows gamers and power users are being targeted by fake MSI Afterburner download portals to infect users with cryptocurrency miners and the RedLine information-stealing malware.
- Bill Toulas
- November 23, 2022
- 01:56 PM
- 0
Linux Kernel 5.19.12 bug could damage Intel laptop displays

Linux users have reported seeing weird white flashes and rapid blinking on their Intel laptop displays after upgrading to Linux kernel version 5.19.12, leading to warnings that the bug may damage displays.
- Bill Toulas
- October 06, 2022
- 11:07 AM
- 1
Google quietly bans deepfake training projects on Colab

Google has quietly banned deepfake projects on its Colaboratory (Colab) service, putting an end to the large-scale utilization of the platform's resources for this purpose.
- Bill Toulas
- May 30, 2022
- 12:13 PM
- 0
NVIDIA fixes ten vulnerabilities in Windows GPU display drivers

NVIDIA has released a security update for a wide range of graphics card models, addressing four high-severity and six medium-severity vulnerabilities in its GPU drivers.
- Bill Toulas
- May 17, 2022
- 03:12 PM
- 0
NVIDIA confirms data was stolen in recent cyberattack

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.
- Ionut Ilascu
- March 01, 2022
- 11:46 AM
- 1
Hackers to NVIDIA: Remove mining cap or we leak hardware data

The Lapsus$ data extortion group has released what they claim to be data stolen from the Nvidia GPU designer. The cache is an archive that is almost 20GB large.
- Ionut Ilascu
- February 28, 2022
- 02:13 PM
- 1
GPU giant NVIDIA is investigating a potential cyberattack

US chipmaker giant Nvidia confirmed today it's currently investigating an "incident" that reportedly took down some of its systems for two days.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 25, 2022
- 03:51 PM
- 4
Researchers use GPU fingerprinting to track users online

A team of researchers from French, Israeli, and Australian universities has explored the possibility of using people's GPUs to create unique fingerprints and use them for persistent web tracking.
- Bill Toulas
- January 30, 2022
- 10:12 AM
- 1
Cybercriminal sells tool to hide malware in AMD, NVIDIA GPUs

Cybercriminals are making strides towards attacks with malware that executes code from the graphics processing unit (GPU) of a compromised system.
- Ionut Ilascu
- August 31, 2021
- 11:12 AM
- 3
NVIDIA fixes high severity flaws affecting Windows, Linux devices

NVIDIA has released security updates to address six security vulnerabilities found in Windows and Linux GPU display drivers, as well as ten additional flaws affecting the NVIDIA Virtual GPU (vGPU) management software.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 08, 2021
- 08:11 AM
- 0