I think this is more relevant and interesting than it might appear, even beyond the malware competition linked by the OP. GPU's are being adapted for intensive computational task, most notably with bit coin mining. If you allow some speculation, there might be substantial evidence inside such a bit coin miner GPU RAM and perhaps even the keys to otherwise inaccessible wallets of interest.
The skills to extract it might be as rare as bitcoin miner developers, but that does not change that the data may reside there.
If you allow some speculation, there might be substantial evidence inside such a bit coin miner GPU RAM and perhaps even the keys to otherwise inaccessible wallets of interest.
I am not sure to understand which kind of evidence (apart finding out that the machine was used as a bitcoin miner) one could expect to find in that case. ?
What do you mean "wallets of interest"?
jaclaz
I am not sure to understand which kind of evidence (apart finding out that the machine was used as a bitcoin miner) one could expect to find in that case. ?
What do you mean "wallets of interest"?
jaclaz
I recall reading (a few years ago) about someone suggesting to run a bunch virtual hosts on a GPU since it had more processing power than a normal CPU. If that happens, then accessing GPU memory will become a priority.
I recall reading (a few years ago) about someone suggesting to run a bunch virtual hosts on a GPU since it had more processing power than a normal CPU. If that happens, then accessing GPU memory will become a priority.
Sure, and, as an examples, there are brute force password crackers that use the GPU, but of course all these kinds of things make use of the GPU (and of the video card RAM) as a (high speed) computing device, but there should be traces on some more "permanent" form of storage.
If we follow what is "possible", does anyone image the (internal) NIC EEPROM/Flash to check it does actually contain a PXE stack or instead a loader or even a "full fledged" OS?
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Or disassembles the BIOS to see if a custom module is in it?
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(and the same goes for the firmware of hard disks, DVD drives, etc. that may well contain *anything*) 😯 .
jaclaz