Thread: Credit card info stolen from RAM

A new breed of malware that can steal credit card numbers before they are encrypted, have been detected in the wild. The problem affects payment gateways which are required to encrypt credit card numbers. The threat is considered sophisticated because only these numbers are siphoned from a server's RAM, which is a small enough amount of data to go undetected by administrators. Rather than complete dumps of the machine's RAM, only the specific numbers are detected and scraped away.