As opposed to a tool that could have once again changed the landscape of the GPU market, he found that the installer extracts a harmful driver file from a server located at “rgeydevcom.” Stepanov, a cryptocurrency miner himself, attempted to unpack the installer and run it via a virtual machine. The installer itself includes a Nvidia GeForce driver file that 18 different antivirus scans recognize as malware.

Tom’s Hardware also reports that a malware scan via Joe Sandbox confirms the tool attempts to block Windows Defender from detecting it.Īs reported by PCMag, Russian data scientist Mikhail Stepanov offered some further insight into the malicious program that was posing as an Ethereum mining unlocker. According to PCGamer, upon downloading and running the ‘LHRUnlocker Install.msi’ file, powershell.exe is deployed, a Windows service infected with malware. Initially due for a public beta version release next week on February 28, the tool was released yesterday on the developer’s GitHub page, which has since been removed. A cryptocurrency miner attached to a laptop Getty Images However, following an early launch, it has now been discovered that the creator planned to spread dangerous malware to users.

The Nvidia RTX LHR v2 Unlocker by Sergey was revealed as a program that would modify the BIOS of Nvidia RTX 30-series graphics cards in order to unlock full mining performance. Fitbit Versa 3Ī tool that claimed to remove all the existing mining limits on several popular Nvidia GPUs has proven to be malware instead.

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