A bug disables WhatsApp chats with Emoji emoticons
The messaging application WhatsApp continues to give joys and scares to users. Thus, after emerging rumors about the video call function that could arrive shortly, now there is a new problem capable of lock a conversation or chat until its content is deleted. A small problem that can be useful as hasty joke or to get rid of a messagethat you do not want to be seen by the caller.But, let's go by parts.
This is a bug discovered by a very young 18-year-old hacker, Indrajeet Bhuyan, who already ran into a similar problem ago a few months with which to block a WhatsApp conversation or chat when sending a message of 2,000 wordsInquiring about the same problem, the hacker found a similar bug when using Emoji emoticons In this way, when sending a message loaded with about 4,000 Emoji emoticons, it is possible to destabilize a WhatsApp conversation to the point of making it unusable. Something that can be used for different purposes, as we mentioned.
Apparently you don't need to be any kind of hacker or cybercriminal, just arm yourself with some patienceThe interesting thing about this bug is that it affects both the mobile app, as well as theWhatsApp web version And the company behind the application had corrected the problems of this type of attack on mobile platforms at limit the number of words that can be sent in a message However, this limit seems to have been forgotten in the computer versionand as far as emoticons is concerned.
This is enough to create a simple message of 4,000 or more Emoji smileys via WhatsApp Web The process is streamlined by completing several lines of the text box, selecting all the emoticons there, and copy and paste again until you get close to this figure. There is no need to keep track, as the Internet browser itself, be it Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, will succumb to the error, blocking itself and stopping working properly. regular for short periods of time.With some patience, when the browser recovers from saturation, it is possible to send the message loaded with Emojis and do harm to another user
The victim of the attack, that is, whoever receives the super message, will see their application as WhatsApp it is blocked In case of having a terminal Android, the user will be forced to close the application forcibly when accessing the chat through which you received the message. In the case of being a user of iPhone, the application freezes without being able to do anything else.
The only solution in this case is delete the chat before accessing it Something that forces get rid of all content shared through that conversation, at least the content in the form of a message. With this, the attacker can prevent the victim from seeing a message, or simply make him desperate by see that you can no longer use that conversation as usual.
In short, a new bug that will surely find a quick solution, but that can serve as play for many or for those who regret having sent a compromising message that want to force delete.
