Cyberattacks are common occurrences for online users but most consumers do not know that even opening a random link or attachment is no longer safe. Cybercriminals constantly explore new methods of attacks.
The criminals have decided to change tactics so that even receiving an image might be enough to let them access your gadget.
A single image could be hiding malicious code. Zero-click exploits are the latest kind of cyberattack, and they can take place any time an image is received. Many people have been victims of a data breach where their personal data was hacked.
Samsung has a new line of defence. While there has been no sign of such attacks on their gadgets, the multinational electronics corporation constantly looks ahead to anticipate potential threats and develop preemptive security measures.
Samsung Galaxy smartphones offer comprehensive safeguards with the powerful Samsung Knox platform, and users are already protected from attacks using video and audio formats.
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Samsung Message Guard takes that security one step further by preemptively protecting your device, limiting exposure to invisible threats disguised as image attachments. The security solution currently works on Samsung messages and messages by Google.
In line with Samsung’s philosophy of open collaboration, a software update will roll out at a later date to let Samsung Message Guard protect you across third-party messaging apps as well.
A Secure Environment Samsung Message Guard is an advanced ‘sandbox’, or a kind of virtual quarantine. When an image file arrives, it is trapped and isolated from the rest of the device.
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This prevents malicious code from accessing your phone’s files or interacting with its operating system. Samsung Message Guard checks the file bit by bit and processes it in a controlled environment to ensure it cannot infect the rest of your device.
It also runs silently and largely invisibly in the background and does not need to be activated by the user. So, where previously you could be endangered without doing anything, now you are protected from zero-click exploits without lifting a finger.
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