A single malformed text message, delivered silently and never shown in the inbox, can crash the telephony process on an Android phone and drop a call in progress, emergency calls included. Researcher ...

A security researcher has uncovered a serious vulnerability in Android that allows an attacker to remotely crash a smartphone using a specially crafted text message. Dubbed “SMS of Death,” the flaw ...

Security researcher Mark Blaszczyk has discovered a vulnerability in Android that attackers can exploit via text message.

Android SMS of Death can crash calls, brick phones, and force resets on Android 12-16. Read what the flaw lets attackers do ...

The Android SMS of Death flaw (CVE-2026-58882) crashes calls with one hidden text. Android 14 to 17 are patched, but Android 12 and 13 are not.

A single tampered text message can crash Android smartphones and even cut off emergency calls. But with an update and a few ...

A researcher has published working code for the “SMS of Death”, a silent text that crashes the software Android phones use ...

An invisible text message crashes Android phones, interrupts calls and traps devices in a reboot loop. Google has already ...

A newly disclosed Android vulnerability can crash the calling service through specially crafted text messages. Google has ...

A single invisible text message can crash the calling service on some Android phones, and that includes calls to emergency ...