{"id":222126,"date":"2026-03-10T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/google-messages-is-about-to-get-a-lot-better-at-catching-phishing-text-scams-on-android\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:55:13","slug":"google-messages-is-about-to-get-a-lot-better-at-catching-phishing-text-scams-on-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/google-messages-is-about-to-get-a-lot-better-at-catching-phishing-text-scams-on-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Messages Is About To Get A Lot Better At Catching Phishing Text Scams On Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2120474\/google-messages-protect-phishing-text-scams-android\/\">Google Messages Is About To Get A Lot Better At Catching Phishing Text Scams On Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2120474\/google-messages-protect-phishing-text-scams-android\/\">https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2120474\/google-messages-protect-phishing-text-scams-android\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 17:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bgr.com\">www.bgr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Tero Vesalainen\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Text phishing continues to be a major issue, even though most smartphones have moved beyond standard SMS messaging in favor of RCS or iMessage. While Google has already been taking some great measures to protect users from text scams, the data shows that scammers are still looking for ways to get around those safety settings. One way that threat actors have become fond of is to use a device called an SMS blaster, which forces devices to connect to it by downgrading them to 2G connections. This requires the bad actor to carry the blaster around to a localized environment, but once it connects to a device, it can send a barrage of phishing scam texts to the user.<\/p>\n<p>Google previously recommended that users disable 2G connections on their smartphones. However, a recent breakdown of the latest Google Messages beta by the folks at Android Authority suggests that the company is taking another step toward protecting Android users. Google has added code that points toward some kind of dedicated &#8220;SMS blaster protection.&#8221; Right now, the code specifically seems to only point to a toggle, which suggests users will be able to turn it on and off. Unfortunately, details on how it might work are pretty much nonexistent at the moment.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">Added protection to Android&#8217;s already strong anti-spam features<\/h2>\n<p>   &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2120474\/google-messages-protect-phishing-text-scams-android\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Messages Is About To Get A Lot Better At Catching Phishing Text Scams On&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/google-messages-is-about-to-get-a-lot-better-at-catching-phishing-text-scams-on-android\/l-intro-1773177863.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,25],"class_list":["post-222126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222128,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222126\/revisions\/222128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}