Indian researchers have discovered a flaw in WhatsApp that allows anyone to remotely crash the popular mobile app by sending a specially crafted message.
A “nice” vulnerability has been discovered in the popular messaging app WhatsApp that could be exploited by an attacker to remotely crash the mobile app just by sending a specially crafted message. The news was reported by two Indian security researchers that contacted the colleagues at ‘The Hacker News’.The two India based researchers, Indrajeet Bhuyan and Saurav Kar, are very young, they are both 17-year old teenagers and have reproduced the exploitation of the vulnerability in the WhatsApp Message Handler.
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