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Google Search Mostly Links are Malicious

ID: b8aeea03-4995-58f0-8d12-d5580ce7ab11

STIX ID: report--b8aeea03-4995-58f0-8d12-d5580ce7ab11

Feed Name: Zscaler Security Research Blog

Threat Score
65/100

Date Published: 2025-04-02

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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The report documents Blackhat SEO poisoning of search engine results where a large proportion of top Google links for trending queries redirected users to fake antivirus pages that attempt to install malware; the author found ~86 malicious redirects among the first 100 results for one search and observed search-engine remediation lag.

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