How to Crash Your Friend's WhatsApp Just By Sending Crazy Smileys

What would require crashing the wildly popular WhatsApp messaging application?

Nearly 4000 Smileys.

Yes, you can crash your friends' WhatsApp, both WhatsApp Web and mobile application, by sending them not any specially crafted messages, but just Smileys.

Indrajeet Bhuyan, an independent researcher, has reported The Hacker News a new bug in WhatsApp that could allow anyone to remotely crash most popular messaging app just by sending nearly 4000 emojis to the target user, thereby affecting up to 1 Billion users.

"In whatsapp it allows upto 6.5k characters,when we reach 4.2k the web browser starts responding slowly but it continues upto the threshold and after we enter 6500 characters it crashes"

The recent bug tested on Android devices by multiple brands and successfully crashed:

• WhatsApp for Android devices including Marshmallow, Lollipop and Kitkat
• WhatsApp Web for Chrome, Opera and Firefox web browsers. 

It is sure that the latest version of WhatsApp is affected by this bug.

How to Protect Yourself 

If you become a victim of such message on WhatsApp, just open your messenger and delete the whole conversation with the sender.

However, remember, if you have kept some records of your chat with that particular friend, you’ll end up losing them all.

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