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Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines

Posted by timothy on from the knowledge-counteracts dept.

L3sPau1 writes "A zero-day exploit has been found in the Nvidia Display Driver Service on Windows machines. An attacker with local access can use the exploit to gain root privileges on a Windows machine. Windows domains with relaxed firewall rules or file sharing enabled can also pull off the exploit, which was posted to Pastebin by researcher Peter Winter-Smith."

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  1. You didn't think this was a bitcoin story... by slashmydots · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...but you were wrong! lol. Good thing 99.99999% of bitcoin mining rigs run exclusively AMD graphics cards or that'd be the first target. If you want fast, easy, untraceable money theft, you target the miners and their pools. A lot of bitcoin miners are actually purposely running older versions of the Catalyst Control Center that run bitcoin calculations faster so imagine what a disaster it would be if it wasn't Nvidia's software that was exploited this time!