Official AMD Forums Compromised

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AMD's customer support forums have been compromised and are being used in an attempt to infect visitors with malicious software.

According to F-Secure's Hypponen, attackers have figured out a way to use AMD's forums to deliver maliciously encoded WMF images to visitors, which are then used to install unauthorized software on the unpatched systems, he said.

In this case, the software appears to be a number of different malicious tool bars. "Most of the tool bars show pop-ups, follow your search and other keyword activity, and use that to target ads to you,"

Source: ComputerWorld

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