The Samsung Galaxy S23 series was recently launched as the South Korean conglomerate’s flagship smartphone range of the year. With the smartphones Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 Ultra and Galaxy S23 Plus, the series has been making headlines for some time. The latest development around Samsung’s flagship range, which has already been launched, improves its security functions. The Samsung Galaxy S23 series has reportedly received the Samsung Message Guard feature, which aims to prevent malicious zero-click attacks through images sent to the smartphone. While the latest Samsung Galaxy S-series phones have yet to report such issues, malicious attackers have been observed performing such attacks in the past.
according to a report from PhoneArena, Samsung has confirmed that it will introduce Smasung Message Guard to its latest Samsung Galaxy S23 series, which includes the vanilla Galaxy S23the high end Galaxy S23 plusand the top end Galaxy S23 Ultra smart phone. The pre-emptive security feature prevents attackers from exploiting zero-click images that could give the attacker access and control over the user’s messages, gallery, and even highly sensitive information such as banking application credentials.
However, the report mentions this Samsung stresses that this is a preventive feature, since no such zero-click exploit cases have been reported on its Galaxy smartphones.
Samsung Message Guard uses a sandbox environment to simulate receiving the image while also checking whether it could contain potentially harmful or malicious code that could be exploited by an attacker. The virtual quarantine would allow the system to detect and neutralize any danger in the components of the image to prevent serious damage to the user’s smartphone or sensitive data stored in it.
The feature is pre-enabled, so users don’t need to take any further steps to protect their phones from such potential zero-click exploits, the report added.
Currently, the feature is supported by Samsung Messages and Messages by Google applications. However, the South Korean conglomerate is expected to update the security feature to work with third-party messaging apps such as Facebook Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, telegramand others, in the future.
