With nearly 100 banks that offer Trusteer’s Rapport for secure web access we are now reaching 20 million installations. Our large install base and the level of trust people have developed in our brand provide us with a unique view of new types of fraud as users contact our free 24x7 support center to get advice. One of these recent interesting incidents described here remind us that fraud can take many shapes and forms
Reports are coming in of a new trend in hacking techniques. Known as ‘pervasive memory scraping,’ the technique relies on the fact that certain areas of Windows memory are only occasionally overwritten, meaning that data from software that has been closed down on the PC, can still remain for some time after.
In the security world, there’s a rather unfortunate asymmetry between those of us who seek to defend systems, and those who seek to attack them. The defenders need to find every potential weakness, every point of entry, in order to defend it.
The attackers need only find one.
AMICHAI SCHULMAN, Chief Technology Officer at Imperva comments on reports from Panda that malware is on the decline, his view is that there is more malware being produced, but the malware writers have got much better at evading detection . In fact, the Imperva research labs have witnessed quite a few Trojans were not detected by some common AVs for over a week, a recent example is the "Boy in the Browser" (BitB) Trojan.
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