SKFU teases us with what could be a native Playstation Vita hack

December 29, 2012 in hardware, PS Vita, security, WTF? by Jd8531 | 119 comments

Just recently developer SKFU has made progress on what could be a native hack of the Vita, giving us our first visual glimpse!

It seems hacking progress is regularly attempted outside of the PSPemu (which is the typical eCFW and VHBL) by SKFU. Awhile back you may remember our reporting on news that the developer SKFU was able to get a developer PsVita and had slowly started to peal back the veil of his own Vita exploit by releasing common app paths in the Vitas filesystem.

Now, SKFU has revealed a picture of what could be a native Vita exploit, confirming that he has made progress with that Dev unit. SKFU posted the picture below and playfully teasing us by saying “VHBL is not the only thing working on 2.02 ”

It seems that if this photo is correct, SKFU has been able to do a very in depth analysis (something we saw with his reveal of the Vitas common app eboot paths) of the Vita and has made some progress in his investigations. What’s shown in the picture is a custom icon and naming of said application.

But don’t get too excited yet. Showing icons of homebrews in the XMB has always been possible on the PSP, it didn’t mean the PSP would accept to run them if they weren’t signed. The PS Vita however is known to prevent you from even copying homebrews to the memory stick, so SKFU has at least figured out how to do that… or is this just a feature of the dev units?

This could be a false lead, but as of now this is the only known one outside the pspemu, besides Yifanlu’s UVL. This is likely to be a huge and developing story so stay tuned for more information, we’ll try to reach out to SKFU for more details on this.

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Pspmte on December 30, 2012 at 8:12 pm

Lol this the guy I had to help to take the ps3 drive mech apart, he was full of bs back then

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pjs312 on December 31, 2012 at 6:22 am

Thats not a dev unit

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1. Ruggy on February 11, 2013 at 12:51 pm
  
  how can you be sure?
  
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krisk on December 31, 2012 at 5:18 pm

SKFU has done Jack shit with regards to releases in the past. Nothing has every proved useful that he has apparently done.

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GENERALboonGAHH on January 1, 2013 at 7:10 am

Happy new year booooogaaah!

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1. Jd8531 on January 1, 2013 at 8:41 am
  
  Happy New Year!
  
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xhack on January 1, 2013 at 9:12 am

don´t teases us please show

HAPPY NEW YEAR ANYWAYS…..

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xhack on January 1, 2013 at 9:20 am

@wololo the mayan has ever said that the world would sink

They have only said that is facing a new age ++ 66 years – 66 years = 1946 the end of wwII+66=2012+66=2068 …..

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1. Dickstick on January 30, 2013 at 9:44 pm
  
  12 + 66 ≠ 68.
  
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xhack on January 1, 2013 at 9:24 am

yes I now 1945 is the end of WW2 but the new age is facing 1946 with a new world order the UNO believe it or not……

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xhack on January 1, 2013 at 9:28 am

United Nations (UN),UNO for United Nations Organization,not the uno the game…

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spankymcspankerson on January 1, 2013 at 12:01 pm

^ Do you smoke rocks dude?

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DarkZenLaughter on January 3, 2013 at 3:48 am

jus sold my PoSV, hack that shit

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Reece Dematteo on January 4, 2013 at 7:43 am

Sounds and looks similar to JeoWay ‘s project on CFU. He said he may just modify the PSP XMB to run Vita Content and through the Native stuff. I dont have any idea but it sounds really cool

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Michael Palacios on January 6, 2013 at 4:59 am

Anything new on this?

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gunblade on January 8, 2013 at 5:05 am

does 2.02 work on the older games mad bloacker….

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1. wololo on January 8, 2013 at 5:53 am
  
  No. The mad blocker exploit was patched, it cannot be used beyond 1.81
  
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Psyos on January 24, 2013 at 6:52 pm

Any updates on this?

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