Photo: Screenshot / The Hacker News
WhatsApp adé: string with crash guarantee
The string was discovered in India. A treacherous vulnerability is currently causing WhatsApp to crash! But the problem can be solved.
There are 66 lines of indecipherable symbols that are currently destroying Messenger. If the recipient opens the message with the string, the app crashes. The renewed vulnerability in WhatsApp is explained in a YouTube video that is currently going around the world. If you send a certain symbol sequence to a contact, you can crash its WhatsApp.
At first everything seems normal: A message is received and WhatsApp can be opened as usual. However, if you want to read the chat with the string, the vulnerability opens up . WhatsApp crashes, not just once, but every time the chat is reopened . The crash trick works so far only on Android devices, Smartphones of the brand Apple and Windows are spared.
The online magazine "The Hacker News" posted the video and the corresponding link to the string. In an associated article, the solution of the problem betrayed: Only when the entire chat with the contact has been deleted, can communicate again easily . The previous conversation on Whats App is thus completely lost. If you want to annoy someone or urgently want to delete the chat history on the smartphone of a contact, you will be pleased about the new discovery.
The messenger service currently manages to get into the media frequently. Only recently it became known that in 2015 you should even be able to make calls with WhatsApp. The ever-emerging security vulnerabilities should not be forgotten in the benefits of the service.
