A new security vulnerability has been discovered in the application of Snapchat για iOS. Η νέα ευπάθεια μπορεί να επιτρέψει σε έναν hacker launch denial-of-service attacks and cause your iPhone to be disabled.
The security researcher Jaime Sanchez who discovered it error on Snapchat app reports that an attacker can send thousands of messages within a few seconds causing the device to be shaken. Victims-owners can only recover it with hard reset.
The application creates a new code every time the user sends a message, in order to verify their identity.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the vulnerability allows reuse of old tokens created by the application to send new messages. So imagine what a malicious user can do using the old ones Tokens. to send spam messages.
