Masri said, ” My intention is not to do bad things. He said that the bug effects iOS versions through 11.2.5 beta 5. And after that, the Messaging app won’t load any messages and will crash. Notably, Masri told the BuzzFeed News that he discovered the bug while he was “fuzzing with the operating system,” which meant that he was trying to enter some random characters into the internal code for the operating system so that he could break it.Ī Twitter user, tested the bug and said that after the link is sent, the device will freeze for few minutes and then it resprings. Users have reported that the device either freezes, crashes, restarts or resprings, that takes about 10 seconds, redirecting you to the lock screen. However, your other personal data is not affected.

It deletes all the messages on the device and makes the Messaging App unusable. On clicking the link, it redirects to a page stored on GitHub and then opens several megabytes of text containing Unicode cascading accent marks, that ultimately overloads the iOS or macOS and crashes the recipient’s iPhone, iPad or Mac devices.

This malicious link, named as “chaiOS”, is sent through the Apple’s messaging app. The software developer, Abraham Masri discovered the bug and posted it to GitHub on Tuesday afternoon, warning the people “not to use it for bad stuff.” In no time, the link went viral all over social media. Chicago based software developer has discovered a security vulnerability in iOS and macOS that is capable of crashing or freezing your iPhone, iPad or Mac.

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