Kaspersky has announced a new feature in its mobile app for Android – Notification Protection. It is the anti-phishing tool for messengers’ and SMS notifications.
When the feature is activated, Kaspersky for Android identifies and removes scam and suspicious links in mobile notifications and protects the user from phishing attempts. Notification Protection has already been activated by over 166 000 users and has proven its efficiency in every case.
In the first half of 2025, Kaspersky’s anti-phishing protection features have blocked more than 2-million attempts to click on phishing or scam links on Android devices all over the world. According to Kaspersky’s latest phishing report, AI tools now enable highly personalised phishing via messaging apps, increasing the level of danger and making it harder to track.
To effectively combat the emerging threats and make phishing detection more advanced, Kaspersky has introduced the Notification Protection feature that detects malicious links found in messengers, SMS and notifications from any other apps.
Kaspersky’s phishing detection provides multilayer protection, ensuring that every link that a user opens on their device is secure:
- Safe browsing – the first line of protection, which checks URLs and warns users about potential phishing sites in their browsers*.
- Safe messaging – detects malicious links in messengers and shows a pop-up warning directly inside the messenger app.
- Notification protection – analyses incoming notifications across all apps, including messengers and SMS, to identify and remove scam and suspicious links even before the user opens the app.
With the new feature activated, a user receives alerts via push notifications and in-app warnings, helping them to avoid clicking on dangerous links in popular messaging apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, and Viber or any other application. \The functionality works even with the screen off and in “Do Not Disturb” mode so users can stay continuously protected. While the functionality won’t be available if the notifications from a specific chat or user are disabled, the Safe messaging feature still will be able to catch malicious links inside the app.
The Notification Protection feature is already available in the latest version of Kaspersky for Android