New SMS Hack Easily Force Reboots Some MediaTek-Based Smartphones

[ariftwister]

A newly found and rather simple SMS-based hack is said to be affecting some smartphones running on MediaTek processors, rebooting the devices without the user's consent.
The SMS-based hack for the Mediatek-based handsets has been discovered by a blogger named Korben (via Neowin), and is said to restart the smartphones as soon as the handset receives a message containing the equal-to sign, or '='. The blogger notes that in MediaTek's chipset language, the symbol is code for 'shutdown and reboot device'.

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[amjath]

lets have some fun

 

[.jRay.]

Time to try it on some friends

 

[ariftwister]

Did you guys had any success?

 

[amjath]

Did you guys had any success?

Can't find people with mediatek processor phones

 

[.jRay.]

Did you guys had any success?

Don't know. I did send an = to a friend with xperia c. He isn't replying now.

 

[amjath]

Don't know. I did send an = to a friend with xperia c. He isn't replying now.

So it's not working, I mean the phone

 

[ssb1551]

The phone just restarts!! I've already checked it!

 

[warfreak]

Confirmed on Lenovo S820 and MMX Canvas 2!

So much fun was had!!!

 

[kaz]

Awesome....The sms should contain only "=" or I can have some text after that?

 

[techlearn]

Having canvas magnus so should i send it to some one from my mobile or from some other mobile...

 

[.jRay.]

So it's not working, I mean the phone

 

[kaz]

Time to get SMS pack after years

 

[Hrishi]

Someone is going to cry now.

 

[kaz]

No one would just blacklist people like us