WhatsApp Messenger can be blocked with a simple message sent to mobile phones (Video)

WhatsApp Messenger is the most popular text messaging application in the world, it has no less than 500 million active users worldwide and it seems that it is affected by a bug that generates a crash, its immediate closure.

In the video clip above you have presented the bug that was discovered by a team of security researchers from India and as you can see the display of the message generates an immediate closure of the application. The message is composed of 2000 special characters that have a total size of only 2KB, but the total composition is what generates problems for the application WhatsApp Messenger, the complete deletion of the conversation being necessary to continue using the application.

For now, all Android versions of WhatsApp Messenger are affected by this bug, he not being tested still in iOS and being confirmed as non-functional in Windows Phone 8.1, so users are safe there. In the past, a message of 7 MB was needed to be able to generate a sudden closure, crash, of the WhatsApp Messenger application, but a simple message of 2 KB with the right characters has exactly the same effect.

On this page you have the message that must be sent to generate the blocking of WhatsApp Messenger and I recommend you not to send it to just any person, even if it is not yet known if it affects the application for iOS. Using this bug, users can be forced to completely delete a conversation or leave a discussion group, so we are talking about a very big problem that WhatsApp will have to solve in the next versions of the application.

UPDATED: It seems that the bug does not affect the iOS platform.