The WhatsApp instant messaging application on the Android system suddenly collapses, when a seemingly normal message is sent to users through the application.
In the details, the security researcher, Pandya Mayor, stated in a tweet on Twitter that the message that causes the application to collapse contains a link, which is http://w.me/settings.
And if that specific message is sent to any of the WhatsApp users on Android, the application will collapse for the user receiving the message, according to the Arab portal for technical news.
Not mined
Reports also indicate that the Android version of WhatsApp affected by the message is precisely the number 2.23.10.77.
It is worth noting that the aforementioned link is a natural link, not an amalgam, and usually takes the user directly to the application settings.
But for an unknown reason, the Android version of WhatsApp has an error that causes the application to crash when opening any conversation that contains the link.
And the message will make the application collapse every time you open the conversation that contains it, so if this message is sent to any user, just avoid opening the conversation that contains the message, and the application will continue to work normally, and it can erase this entire conversation from the application without open it.
from the computer
In the event that the application is completely unable to use the phone because of the message, the user will have to open the WhatsApp account from the computer, delete the message from it, and then resume using the application again on Android.
According to the available data, the WhatsApp application is the most popular chatting application in the world with more than two billion users around the world, followed by the Chinese WeChat application with about 1.2 billion users, and then the Facebook Messenger application with nearly one billion users.
Note that the WhatsApp and Messenger applications are both owned by the American company Meta.
It is expected that an update to the application will be released soon to solve the problem.
