WhatsApp solves the failure of blocking chats with a message

During the past week a new news about security problems and operation of WhatsApp jumped into the informative arena. And it is that a new vulnerability was discovered that affected the Android platform, in which users were forced to leave of a conversation or chat simply by receiving a message full of Asian charactersQuite a nuisance that led the user to delete the conversation by not being able to access it due to some type of blocking that this message granted.

Well, this vulnerability is coming to an end thanks to the latest update released by WhatsApp for terminals Android Thus, it would be enough to download the new version that some users have begun to receive through Google Play to make sure that when receiving or sending this message with oriental characters, the application does not crash and prevent its correct operation. Something that we have been able to verify in the writing of tuexpertoAPPS with our own tests.

It's about the version 2.11.468 of WhatsApp for Android, and there doesn't seem to be any news apart from solving this curious and annoying vulnerability.With this, no one will have to fear receiving this curious message and being forced to delete and leave the conversation And, curiously, this apparently simple message managed to the application stops working correctly, being useful to annoy a contact and, above all, to force them to delete a conversation Something that would allow delete evidence such as shared messages and photos.

But it doesn't end there. Just a few days after its discovery, various websites have begun implementing bots (robots with automated tasks) that dedicated themselves to massively sending these messages to thousands of users Getting with it only the nuisanceof receiving the aforementioned message, trying to access it, and being prevented by the malfunction of the application.Something that users who update the messaging application to its new version will no longer have to suffer.

Along with this, in the tests carried out in tuexpertoAPPS, we have been able to verify the reappearance of the icons that accompany the different options and sections of the application menus. A visual detail that already appeared fleetingly after the last updates and that could be here to stay. A convenience that helps the user to recognize each option of this application with just a glance

In short, a necessary update to prevent this vulnerability from becoming more widely known and used with the simple purpose of annoying or forcing users to delete a chat and, with it, information and messages stored there Just download the latest update of WhatsApp available for Android on Google PlayOf course, it seems that this new version is not immediately available for all terminals, so we will have to be aware during the next few days to avoid this vulnerability . The new version is free, as long as you are within the one year free period or have already paid for the subscription to WhatsApp