GPU Malware Can Also Affect Windows PCs, Possibly Macs

itwbennett writes: A team of anonymous developers who recently created a Linux rootkit that runs on graphics cards has released a new proof-of-concept malware program that does the same on Windows. A Mac OS X implementation is also in the works. The problem the developers are trying to highlight lies not with the operating systems, such as Windows or Linux, nor with the GPU (graphics processor unit) vendors, but rather with existing security tools, which aren't designed to scan the random access memory used by GPUs for malware code.

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Load of overhyped bullshit.

[Anonymous Coward]

The linux rootkit doesn't "run on GPUs".
It allocates a buffer on the GPU and then stores strings in that buffer.
So they've demonstrated that ... you can store data in RAM.
Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.