Google serves up fake AMD driver downloads in search results
Published: November 12, 2025
Google is once more serving up malicious websites in more prominent positions than สมัคร winner55 เครดิตฟรี legitimate pages in its search results. This time around it's within search results for some users looking for AMD driver downloads according to a Reddit user on the popular PC Master Race subreddit (via PC World).
The link in question wasn't part of the search results proper but Google's context-aware curated ad links which can appear above search results. We have been unable to replicate the results, but can confirm the malicious website shown in the Reddit poster's search results is real enough.
This is far from the first time something like this has happened, what with phishing w69 slot ทาง เข้า scammers buying Google ad slots to impersonate Whatsapp last month and a fake EVGA website created around the Memorial Day sales event given more prominence than the official page in search results last year. But it's particularly disappointing to see Google linking to what is clearly not a yono all app legitimate website and thus facilitating the distribution of malware at the top of a search results page.
While the malicious nature of the website ought to have been obvious to Google, at a glance it could well be convincing enough for casual PC users. It's fully branded up with AMD logos. It even has a few functioning hyperlinks that send users to legitimate parts of AMD's official website.
Of course, it doesn't bare close inspection, with most of the links redirecting in circular fashion to the same highly dubious URL. But it's not at all hard to imagine someone landing on the page, seeing the nice big 'download' and firing away.
We're not sure what nasties are contained in the malicious .exe file. But hopefully you'll forgive us for not sacrificing a Windows installation to find out.
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