Memory-Scraping Attacks are described as?

Memory-Scraping Attacks are described as?

• A. Malware activity that examines and extracts data that resides in memory as it is being processed or which has not been properly flushed or overwritten.
• B. Attacks that randomly wipe memory with no traces
• C. Attacks that intercept memory with hardware keyloggers
• D. Attacks that occur only on disk storage

Answer: (A)

Memory-scraping attacks involve malware that reads data stored in volatile memory (RAM) as it is being processed or before it has been cleared. In payment environments this means the malware scans RAM to grab cardholder data, such as PAN and related details, while the data is momentarily present and not yet overwritten. This makes memory a prime target because the information can exist in memory in plaintext during processing even if it isn’t stored on disk. The other options don’t fit because wiping memory would destroy data rather than extract it, hardware keyloggers capture keystrokes rather than memory contents, and attacks limited to disk storage target data at rest rather than data in memory.

Memory-scraping attacks involve malware that reads data stored in volatile memory (RAM) as it is being processed or before it has been cleared. In payment environments this means the malware scans RAM to grab cardholder data, such as PAN and related details, while the data is momentarily present and not yet overwritten. This makes memory a prime target because the information can exist in memory in plaintext during processing even if it isn’t stored on disk. The other options don’t fit because wiping memory would destroy data rather than extract it, hardware keyloggers capture keystrokes rather than memory contents, and attacks limited to disk storage target data at rest rather than data in memory.