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AMD Forum Under WMF Attack
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-01-30
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It looks like AMD's discussion forum has had a hex placed on it. When people visit the discussion forum, they get a WMF exploit plopped right down into their lap or in this case, their computer.
According to F-Secure after inspecting the source code, at the bottom of the HTML is an encoded IFRAME directive. This will take someone straight to toolbardollars.biz and creates a whole host of problems.
While AMD has been notified, no word yet as to what happened. In the meantime, folks may want to stay away from the site for a while.
The WMF exploit for Windows was one of the nastier and perhaps most annoying of any of these types of vulnerabilities. Microsoft new about the problem and chose not to act on it long before the vulnerability was exploited by hackers at-large.
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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