A security researcher discovered a Denial of Service (DOS) bug in Facebook Messenger for iOS version 477.0.0.The researcher used emojis to identify the bug, reverse engineered the Messenger APK using JADX and conducted dynamic investigations with Frida.It was found that the data being transmitted to the recipient is a string containing an emoji in hexadecimal.The researcher also demonstrated that sending an invalid string caused the Messenger app to crash.