Malicious Video Link Causes iOS Devices to Freeze, Requiring a Hard Reset

[Goatllama]

Doesn't "hard reset" mean erase the device to factory settings? I think this just requires a "hard restart".

The current official term is a force restart, as per HT201559. Blame imprecise technical support advisors (both Apple and carrier) for the mess of alternate wordings.

 

[ILikeAllOS]

The video is now private on VK.
This was the original direct link just in case it comes back online and here is a current mirror I found.
I didn't test if the mirror freezes iOS like the original VK link, I'll leave that to others to test. 😀

 

[adnbek]

soo many bad news for apple..

Apple is doomed?

 

[panar]

Apple is doomed?

Software wise?? For sure.

 

[dysamoria]

How exactly does this work? Why is software still able to be seriously compromised by corrupted documents?

 

[akash.nu]

How exactly does this work? Why is software still able to be seriously compromised by corrupted documents?

Why do you think it's not possible?