In the course of the last few days, several hackers, developers of solutions of jailbreak and developers of tweaks/applications for Cydia were attacked yesterday through the system iMessage by a few people eager to make quick money. Practice the system iMessage has a vulnerability that allow flooding users by sending thousands of messages, including special characters. The end result is the impossibility of using the Messages application to read/send/receive messages, something that all those attacked have experienced.
All this attack was done with the help of an AppleScript that allowed the quick sending of messages via iMessage directly from desktops, and the bad part is that sending messages with many Unicode characters prevents the application from opening in iOS. Combining these elements in a single message makes it impossible to play them in the Messages application, and those who were attacked could not use their applications in any way. The method used by the person/persons behind the attack is at least a month old and represents a security problem for Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),.
p0sixninja managed to contact a few people he knows within Apple and says that we should expect that iOS 6.1.4 to solve this problem. It was to be expected anyway iOS 6.1.4 to be released sooner or later to block the new bug that allows the removal of the passcode from LockScreen, and it could also solve this problem.
