This simple text message can paralyze your iPhone

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A newly discovered iOS bug lets an attacker construct a simple text message which, when sent to an iPhone, immediately freezes and possibly restarts it.

Software developer Abraham Masri has identified the bug and christened it chaiOS (which we must admit is a pretty awesome name). Masri told BuzzFeed, who first wrote about the bug, that he found it while “fuzzing with the operating system.”

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