Beware - that Nvidia RTX LHR Mining Unlocker is actually malware

Date:
Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:06:07 +0000

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Supposed Nvidia RTX LHR v2 Unlocker is, in fact, malware, experts warn.

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Malicious actors are preying on greedy Ethereum miners by trying to
distribute malware through places where it hurts them the most - their precious GPU devices.

As reported by Toms Hardware , the Nvidia GeForce RTX 30- and RTX A-series graphics cards come with a limiter of sorts in an attempt to make them less attractive to the cryptocurrency miners.

However, it wasnt long before someone pushed something called the "Nvidia RTX LHR v2 Unlocker to the web". It is being advertised as a tweak to the cards BIOS, a modification to the firmware, which removes the performance cap for miners. TechRadar needs you!

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In reality, this firmware update is nothing more than malware. The YouTube channel Red Panda Mining Live! tested the firmware, and streamed the whole ordeal. Among the numerous red flags that the researchers spotted, was the fact that the program was timestamped as created in 2009, and not in 2022.

Taking to Twitter, news editor at Wccftech, Hassan Mujtaba, said all links to the Github asset download page have been removed since this tool is
apparently infused with malware, and asked the miners to avoid downloading,
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Cryptocurrency miners are polarizing not just the crypto community, but also GPU makers, politicians, environmental activists, lawmakers, and others. On one end, mining is the essential element to the elimination of third parties in financial transactions, while miners are deemed pivotal for the security
of the Ethereum network. At the other end, the rising popularity of mining is making it almost impossible to obtain a new, strong graphics card, as all demand is eaten up in an instant, hiking the prices into the stratosphere.

Furthermore, miners are often criticized for wasting enormous amounts of energy, thus leaving a major carbon footprint. Crypto advocates, on the other hand, are saying that the energy spent on mining is negligible, as it takes
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