Samsung Halau Malware Attack Without Click With Message Guard Feature

Photo Illustration of Message Guard / dock Features. Samsung

JAKARTA - Samsung has just added a Message Guard security and safety feature, which protects users from malware without clicking.

The company said it was concerned about a clickless attack, which could install malware to the device without the user clicking or tapping anything.

This attack, said to have increased in recent years. To help dispel it, Samsung developed a feature called Message Guard.

Message Guard runs in the background. This feature will isolate PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF, ICO, WEBP, BMP and WBMP files that users receive in messages from all devices.

The tool will check the image little by little and process it to make sure they can't infect the device with a malicious code.

The best of the feature, users don't have to do anything, the phone and Message Guard do all the hard work, making things feel smooth.

Of course, this is just an additional layer of protection Samsung has provided, in addition to its▁hukumting platform, which has been found in most of its flagship handsets over the years.

The feature is currently working on the Samsung Messages and Google Messages apps, which come on the Galaxy S23 series device first.

The company plans to roll out Message Guard in stages to smartphones and other Galaxy tablets running One UI 5.1 or higher.

Samsung plans to roll out an update in the future, where the Message Guard will work with third-party apps as well.

Launching Engadget, Saturday, February 18, examples of clickless attacks such as spyware owned by NSO Group, are usually installed on iPhone phones used by cybercriminals to target activists, journalists, government officials and politicians.