🚨 Nvidia's banned B300s showed up in China because someone left the monitoring dashboard open
Security firm Lava scanned unauthenticated Nvidia DCGM Exporter endpoints and found about 2,100 hosts reporting 12,000+ unique GPUs. 32 of them were B300s tied to China Telecom, a chip barred from sale there.
No smuggling sting needed, just a public Prometheus port.
Security firm Lava scanned unauthenticated Nvidia DCGM Exporter endpoints and found about 2,100 hosts reporting 12,000+ unique GPUs. 32 of them were B300s tied to China Telecom, a chip barred from sale there.
No smuggling sting needed, just a public Prometheus port.
LAVA
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Lava analyzed 12,000+ GPUs through exposed monitoring, finding 32 NVIDIA B300s on Chinese networks and nearly 60% of its global sample reporting 0% utilization.