FUD is spreading about a weirdly named personal network that a reverse engineer stumbled across and said permanently wrecked his iPhone s Wi-Fi. The glitch is triggered by a string format bug that will inspire threat actors to dig deeper into the inner workings of Apple to find out what, exactly, causes the behavior and how to exploit it, security expert Dirk Schrader said. The bug is similar to an SMS flaw that caused widespread messaging problems on iPhones in November.
Source: https://threatpost.com/iphone-wi-fi-weird-network/167075/