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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

RAM scraper malware, also known as Point-of-Sale (POS) malware , harvests data temporarily stored in a system’s memory, also known as random access memory (RAM). While this sensitive payment data is only available for milliseconds before passing the encrypted numbers to back-end systems, attackers can still access millions of records.

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