Nvidia, known worldwide for the large graphics card (GPU) manufactures used by miners in Mining Rigs for Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies, has reported an important fact to those who use mining through their plates.

It alleges a number of vulnerabilities in its devices that could even be used by hackers who take control of the hardware as system administrators.

By taking control as an administrator, he runs malicious scripts on his computer, stealing data, installing malware, cryptojacking systems for Monero, and even installing codes that replace shipping addresses in Bitcoin wallets and cryptocurrencies.

According to the article published, every Geforce, Quadro and Tesla line has different degrees of danger and must have their drives updated urgently, so that in some cases remote execution of malicious code and scalability of user permissions is not allowed.

Following quote:

"NVIDIA has released a software security update for the NVIDIA GPU video driver. This update addresses issues that may lead to local code execution, denial of service, or privilege escalation. To protect your system, download and install this update. NVIDIA Driver Downloads, "the statement said.