Personally, I’ve never liked to publish news or information that might compromise security or cause problems in our electronic devices, but bearing in mind that information is already circulating on the Internet, what we get spreading it is for Apple to address the problem sooner. Explained this, is has discovered a new way of block iMessage of any iPhone with iOS 10 sending you a message with a file attached that the victim must run manually so can make of them yours.
It is not the first time that is discovered a similar bug that may cause problems when you receive a message by the official Apple app. In this case, it seems that are vulnerable to this problem any iPhone that have installed any version of iOS 10, included the last beta of iOS 10.2.1. When one of these iPhone receives a file attachment in concrete by messages and we try to open it, messages will freeze and can not interact application, provided the attachment have malicious code.
There is a new message in circulation which can lock your iPhone
Once executed the attachment, you can open multitasking and forcing the closure of the application messages, but if we try to open the application again all they will see is a blank screen. Force a restart does not solve the problem, being the only reliable solution to restore the device. Logically, a time restored not must return to play that file attached, since can appear if we have them messages stored in iCloud.
As it is better to prevent than cure, the best thing we can do is to not open any attached file that we receive messages of someone we know, which also would be a good idea to apply in any other messaging application. Always can receive this type of message of some known, in whose case will have that ask you where is the grace of the joke that we just of make.
As I said at the beginning of this post, my intention to publish this news it is, on the one hand, that all know what can happen if we receive a message of this type and, on the other hand, that Apple give hint and solve the bug as soon as possible. Hope that you do for the launch official of iOS 10.2.1.
