Malware emerging as primary data breach weapon

Chris Novak from Verizon provided an update at the MasterCard Global Risk Management Conference in Miami two weeks ago.

Malware is a rising method of attack, and in 25% of the Malware attacks, the software was written specifically for the environment that was attacked.

There are three new emerging kinds of attacks. Ram Scrappers running in memory, packet sniffers capturing data in motion, and malware that resides in unallocated disk space and is hard to locate.