{"id":78968,"date":"2026-05-20T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=78968"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:43:05","slug":"your-nvidia-gpu-needs-a-driver-update-right-now-unless-you-enjoy-surprise-malware-dlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=78968","title":{"rendered":"Your Nvidia GPU Needs A Driver Update Right Now, Unless You Enjoy Surprise Malware DLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of Nvidia graphics cards will want to make certain that their hardware is up to date, as the company has issued a new security alert. According to Nvidia, hackers have discovered a new vulnerability across Windows and Linux drivers, allowing them to gain access to PCs and wreak some major havoc. Forget about having a non-operational PC; the exploit could allow bad actors to get away with crucial data stored on your PC or inject some malicious code that would give them unfettered access.<\/p>\n<p>Nvidia users can grab the new security software update for GPU display drivers post-haste and upgrade to driver version 596.49. You can grab the download <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/Download\/index.aspx\">directly from Nvidia<\/a><\/strong> or through the Nvidia app on Windows. <a href=\"https:\/\/nvidia.custhelp.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/5821\">All Nvidia drivers<\/a> before Version 596.36&#8211;or Version 482.53 for GTX 10-series users and below&#8211;are potentially at risk. As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalfoundry.net\/news\/2026\/05\/psa-upgrade-your-nvidia-graphics-drivers-to-avoid-a-high-severity-vulnerability\">Digital Foundry<\/a>, Linux users will want to update their drivers to version 590.48.01 to beef up their PC security.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/drivers\/\">Nvidia drivers<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In related news, Nvidia recently introduced a beta version of what it&#8217;s calling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/nvidia-is-attempting-to-solve-one-of-pc-gamings-biggest-problems-shader-compilation\/1100-6539142\/\">Auto Shader Compilation<\/a>. PC gamers who have spent an annoying amount of time waiting for a game to finish compiling shaders will be interested in this update,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of Nvidia graphics cards will want to make certain that their hardware is up to date, as the company has issued a new security alert. According to Nvidia, hackers have discovered a new vulnerability across Windows and Linux drivers, allowing them to gain access to PCs and wreak some major havoc. Forget about having&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":78970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78971,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78968\/revisions\/78971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}