Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS

(smsofdeath.com)

31 points | by MarkBlah 2 hours ago ago

15 comments

  • klhs 29 minutes ago ago

    How could they possibly give this a "won't fix" if it can do what is reported here?

    • MarkBlah 22 minutes ago ago

      mind boggles, issue is they're swamped with AI slop and high number of findings, they're using AI assistance operated by a 3rd party to handle researcher submissions so many legitimate findings slip through the cracks.

      • klhs 9 minutes ago ago

        That's unfortunate. They need to do some kind of triage then, I hope this doesn't mean that they're constantly busy now with equally bad or worse bugs, but I guess it wouldn't be too surprising.

  • est an hour ago ago

    I remember there was a tel: link than when I clicked it wipes everything on my samsung phone

  • yellow_lead 18 minutes ago ago

    > The attack is remote, needs only the victim's number, and shows them nothing.

    err, how can I send an SMS like this? Would a mobile network even accept/forward such an SMS?

    Little hard reading through the vibe slop here

    • rustyhancock 5 minutes ago ago

      Looks like the website offers an APK.

      But not all SMS are text messages for the user.

  • 0xcrypto an hour ago ago

    Can we stop vibecoding a new website for every next vulnerability we find please? Thank you.

    • rustyhancock 4 minutes ago ago

      I think it's a good idea when there is no CVE and a don't fix status.

      Before this practice in general you simply released the exploit and see if enough chaos triggers a fix.

    • solyin an hour ago ago

      Blame heartbleed for the practice, which long predates ChatGPT and vibecoding. Human psychology is to blame. Only nerds are going to find CVE-2014-0160 triggering, but if I say heartbleed everyone who was there remembers.

      • autoexec 42 minutes ago ago

        > Only nerds are going to find CVE-2014-0160 triggering, but if I say heartbleed everyone who was there remembers.

        That has more to do with the severity of heartbleed than the fact that it had a name and a logo. I've since seen a lot of vulnerabilities try to market themselves with websites, cute names, and stupid logos but I still don't remember them because they still just weren't big enough to actually be memorable.

    • __m an hour ago ago

      Why? I like the presentation.

    • MarkBlah 27 minutes ago ago

      agreed, we should all use gopher and block all web traffic, go back to text based systems, use single threaded operating systems and use token ring NIC's

  • EdwardDiego 11 minutes ago ago

    Omfg I am interested in this, I'm interested in wtf a WAP push is, but all I'm getting on this website is Claude-speak "not this, but that" and tables of irrelevant numbers, because Claude fucking loves a table.

    Look at this Claude shit:

    > Zero-click. The victim does nothing. No tap, no open, no notification.

    > Silent. Nothing appears in Messages; the attacker's number is never shown.

    Congrats, now you sound like yet another AI YouTube advertisement. "You control when we... ...woohoo"...

    OP, please, if you think you have important information, please write it up yourself, I am so sick and tired of being sent LLM generated Markdown files with zero human input, and now you're just publishing that on a website.

    FFS.

    Oh you had Claude publish your name presumably so you'd get credit for "your" "discovery".

    Mark Blaszczyk, please do better.

  • villgax an hour ago ago

    Shouldn’t click this reminder