

Get the latest news on new launches, gadget reviews, apps, cyber security and more on personal technology only on DH Tech. Unit members are trained in advanced post-blast investigation. Go to Settings > go to individuals Apps > turn off notifications. The Italian Flag Text Bomb Bug appeared via a text message in the messaging app Telegram reported on Reddit and was circulated via Twitter, WhatsApp and iMessage.
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Is there is a solution to this text bomb bug?Īs per recent reports, Apple is already working on it and the bug-fix is expected to be available in the soon-to-be-released iOS/iPadOS 13.4.2.įor now, if the device's screen is freezing, just reboot the device by long-pressing volume up/down simultaneously with the power button.Īlso, until the new update comes, it is better to turn off the notifications on messaging and social media apps. The craziest iOS crash text bug 💀 /29LJPb67WP by Nick Cohen in Industry Share: While ZecOps refrains from attributing these attacks to a specific threat actor, we are aware that at least one 'hackers-for-hire' organization is selling exploits using vulnerabilities that leverage email addresses as a main identifier. Between 20, there were several instances wherein a string of Telugu, Arabic, Marathi, Chinese and other Unicode texts sent to iMessage caused the devices to crash. Beware: This Sindhi ‘text bomb’ can crash your iPhone. It can be noted that this is not the first time, we are seeing such text bombs crashing iPhones and iPads.
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This apparently caused Apple devices to crash in wider regions across the world.Īlso, this issue is seen only in the iPhones and iPads with the latest software iOS 13.4.1/iPadOS 13.4.1. Now, pranksters got to know of the bug and started sharing on them on other messaging apps like WhatsApp, iMessage (exclusive to iPhones/iPads), and even social media channels as well. Americans have a greater chance of winning the lottery or being hit repeatedly by lightning than encountering a mail bomb during their lifetime.

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In this case, the iPhone fails to decompress and extract the message in its full form from the memory and thus causing it to freeze and crash.
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We have come to understand that it is a hard task for iPhone (or even Android mobiles) when dealing with an exotic language such as Sindhi it takes a lot of processing power to compress the message for a preview and de-compress when reading the full text. New iPhone text-bomb bug: Just receiving this Sindhi character notification crashes iPhones by rootdaemon ApiOS 13.4. It has come to light the miscreants posted a string of Sindhi language (predominantly used in Pakistan and some parts of India) characters on the Telegram messenger app and people opened the inbox, the iPhone ( &iPads) seem to have trouble recognizing them and is crashing.

In related news, Apple is also rumored to start selling a redesigned MacBook with its own chips as early as 2021.Multiple iPhone and iPad owners around the world are complaining that a text message is causing their device's screen to freeze and crash. While it’s unclear when the update will roll out to the public, a temporary solution that people have been offering is to disable notifications for the time being. Apple appears to be working on a solution as the latest 13.4.5 beta seems to fix the issue. The bug is currently affecting devices running on the latest version of iOS 13.4.1. Any notification, including ones sent through social media, can cause iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple Watches to crash. This type of bug, also known as a text bomb, is different from its predecessors since it apparently doesn’t need to be sent through the Message app. Social media video of the bug shows the impact which causes a device to become unresponsive and require a hard reset. This time around, it seems that a certain string of Sindhi characters sent via text can lock the operating system and force devices to crash. Apple appears to be suffering similar software issues that arose on iOS 11 a few years ago when an Indian language character from a text message would crash iPhones.
