crashsafari.com blocks iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC

A new malicious web page promoted starting today on the Internet is capable of completely jailbreak an iPhone or iPad tablet and to block the browser open on a PC or Mac, its name being crashsafari.com.

When you will access crashsafari.com from an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, your terminal will freeze and it will perform a respring or even a restart, so you will lose any data that you did not have saved in your devices, a solution for the problem not being available now.

If you will access crashsafari.com from a PC or Mac, then the browser from which you access it will be completely blocked and it will be necessary to close it from the task manager if a closing message does not appear, in some situations it is even necessary to restart the Mac or the PC.

To block browsers, computers and mobile terminals, the source code of the crashsafari.com page contains a code that initiates the opening of the HTML5 History API several thousand times, this exploitation of the system causing the whole problem without a solution being possible now.

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Unfortunately the bug exploited by crashsafari.com can affect mobile terminals running iOS 9.2, iOS 9.3 or older versions of iOS, the latest versions of OS X and Windows are also affected, so everyone is vulnerable.

Given that the link to crashsafari.com is shared by many people on the Internet, you must be careful what you click on on social networks from applications or computers because you can wake up at any time with a computer blocked by that web page.

In conclusion, avoid crashsafari.com at any cost until a possible solution to this problem is found before updates for iOS and OS X are released.