During this weekend we told you that a major iOS vulnerability discovered by a Romanian developer could allow hackers to trick us into accessing premium phone numbers hiding them in the form of some links. Aware of the importance of the problem, those from Facebook announced that they have already prepared an update for the application Facebook Messenger, it will be launched in App Store to solve this problem.
A Facebook spokesperson told TechRadar that the social network has already prepared an update to address the issue described below, in which clicking a web link from native iPhone apps can force your phone to automatically make a call, potentially to expensive or harmful numbers.
Practically in the course of the next hours or days an update for Facebook Messenger will be available in App Storethe company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, he will prevent hackers from exploiting the application in the manner shown in the image above. Practically, now the application will ask us through an alert if we want to call a phone number, regardless of whether it will be hidden in the form of a link or not, so no one will be able to trick us.
Unfortunately, the vulnerability present in Facebook Messenger also exists in many other similar applications, so you must be very careful what you access.
