Revealed by EverythingApplePro on YouTube a malicious message dubbed “Black Dot” message has been discovered. It takes advantage of a bug in Unicode to crash Apple’s Messages app on iPhones and iPads running iOS 11.3 and the beta releases of iOS 11.4.
The message consists of a black dot emoji and a hand pointing to it, sent through the Messages app to another user. Apple hasn’t issues a fix yet, but one is expected soon, notes AppleInsider.
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