Fileless Infections from Exploit Kit: An Overview - Jéróme Segura - Malwarebytes Unpacked

Unique patterns, packets that match the size of binaries on disk, all make things easier for the good guys to detect and block malicious activity. But the reality is this was just an adaptive phase when the bad guys did not need to spend any extra effort and still got what they wanted: high numbers of infections.

How RAM Scrapers Work: The Sneaky Tools Behind the Latest Credit Card Hacks - Kim Zetter - Wired

Viruses and worms have each had their day in the spotlight. Remote-access Trojans, which allow a hacker to open and maintain a secret backdoor on infected systems, have had their reign as well. These days, though, point-of-sale RAM scrapers are what’s making the news.

The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose - Andy Greenberg - WIRED

In a talk at the Derbycon hacker conference in Louisville, Kentucky last week, researchers Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson showed that they’ve reverse engineered the same USB firmware as Nohl’s SR Labs, reproducing some of Nohl’s BadUSB tricks. And unlike Nohl, the hacker pair has also published the code for those attacks on Github, raising the stakes for USB makers to either fix the problem or leave hundreds of millions of users vulnerable.

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