“Memory-scrapping malware is malicious software designed to examine memory of sensitive processes and extract data that would otherwise be unavailable in persistent storage.”
– Slightly paraphrasing Anand Sastry’s definition from his article on credit card data compromises via memory-scraping malware.
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