New SMS Hack Easily Force Reboots Some MediaTek-Based Smartphones

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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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