WhatsApp has a very serious problem with mobile phones currently exposed to millions upon millions of users worldwide, and it's something everyone should know about. More precisely, the WhatsApp application is vulnerable to text message attacks, that is, some users use certain types of text messages to block the application from users' phones, and in some countries the problem is a very serious one.
WhatsApp has a certain set of characters that it recognizes, and certain combinations of them, including some missing characters, can generate a sudden blocking and closing of the application. Problems of this kind are not new, some appearing even in the native applications of certain phones, and generating their complete blocking, but in the case of WhatsApp it is not about something like that, only the application being blocked, without the phone being affected in any way .
WhatsApp: ATTENTION! Phones Hit by a SERIOUS Problem
WhatsApp it has no protection against problems of this kind, as it happens in the case of third-party applications that allow access to the platform, and this is the biggest problem, in the end. Those at WhatsApp did not think about solving the situation to protect users in relation to problems of this kind, people not being able to stop receiving messages of this kind, but only waking up with applications blocked because of them.
I raised this issue a few weeks ago. My followers told that this is called "Binario", "Contact bombs", "Trava Zap", "Crashers" or simply "message/vcard crash".
It's very complicated to explain, but these messages can crash WhatsApp every time you open the app. https://t.co/yhOn8OymIF- WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) August 16
WhatsApp they could very easily find solutions for problems of this kind, if they wanted to do so, but unfortunately for now the company does not bother with such situations. It is possible that WhatsApp will have to offer protection against attacks of this kind after enough people complain about them, but of course it takes a very large number of people to come with complaints of this kind because things to improve.
WhatsApp it should have more types of protections implemented for users around the world, but for that to happen, it needs involvement to do something good for users.
