A malicious link that is capable of crashing iOS and macOS when received through Apple's Messages app
ChaiOS bug's code gives your Apple device a brainstorm. Ashamed about the mess it gets itself in, Messages decides the least embarrassing thing to do is to crash.
Nasty. But, thankfully, more of a nuisance than something that will lead to data being stolen from your computer or a malicious hacker being able to access your files.
Readers with long memories will recall that Apple users have been bedevilled by text bomb vulnerabilities like this in the past.
For instance, in 2013 it was found that Macs and iPhones could be crashed by a simple string of Arabic characters, and in 2015 an attack dubbed "Effective Power" saw a sequence of characters allow mischief-makers to remotely reboot iPhones.
https://www.grahamcluley.com/chaios-bug-crash-ios-macos-messages/
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