Is this PS4 hack real? Fake PS4 exploit sets the scene on fire
Our scam of the day is an interesting one, as it is the first fake PS4 hack claim since the console was out. Don’t worry, many more fake hacks will come along the way, trust me on that. But this one’s special, as it’s the first one. Earlier today, rumors started spreading about a potential PS4 Hack. The initial pastebin for the “exploit” from user Reckz0r claimed a PS4 running on the Day 1 update was able to install and run a “jailbreak” update program.
The pastebin pretends to provide download links to a “PS4 Devkit” (whatever that means) and a Jailbreak package. Of course, the files do not actually exist, and no mirror is to be found anywhere. Confirming the growing suspicions of fake at this point is the fact that no mirror of the files seem to be found anywhere, something that would be a first in the history of the internet for a release that big. Well, at least be glad it does not take you to a “survey”.
If it wasn’t clear at this point that the release is obviously fake (note how you don’t even need to understand anything about hacking to see it at this point, just basic common sense: a release of this importance would have been mirrored on dozens of underground websites by now if the files had ever been online.
But to confirm it further in case you still had doubts, Reckz0r himself posted a “screenshot” of a conversation between him and “playstation” regarding the files, apparently to explain why the files have been taken down.
Here again, everybody who’s had a professional activity in their life knows that an official PR-related twitter account from a respectable company such as Sony would never contact a hacker directly like that on twitter, especially to use such petty intimidation. Anybody also noticed how Direct Messages in Twitter are limited to 140 characters? That didn’t seem to be part of the faker’s plan, that or he is really trying hard to make it obvious this whole thing is a joke.
The announcement however does have a few somewhat convincing elements. Some people claim reckz0r is a respected member of the hacking scene. Unfortunately (for him), just a bit of google surfaces a majority of respectable website calling Reckz0r out on all his fake hacks: fake Xbox live hack last year, copy/pasted leaks from other hacking teams and claiming them as his own, etc… The 23-year old script kiddy Reckz0r pretty much built his “respectability” on the fact that many mainstream blogs don’t even double check their information.
Such will be the case this time too, with already many blogs or mainstream websites reporting the “PS4 hack” without having done the bare minimum of research on the truth of the story. A few scene websites categorized the article as “rumour”, which is a step in the right direction, but far from calling the fake for what it is.
At least this is a good way for you to identify lame sites: if you went to a site that pretends/believes this hack is real, you can stop going there right now because these guys are obviously clueless.
In the “release”, Reckz0r buys himself some credibility by stating he didn’t come up with the hack, just wrote a tutorial for it. He points to another hacker by the name of x-s4nd3r as the “origin” of the hack. x-s4nd3r is a hacker who was known for defacing websites, a category of hacking that requires skills extremely different from the ones required to hack a console. That this person would be behind a PS4 jailbreak is highly unlikely, both because the skillset is different, but also probably because that person has no interest in console hacking.
All these elements add up of course: a known faker releases a pastebin with absolutely no proof of anything whatsoever, links are conveniently missing, none of the “sources” he mentions can be found anywhere, his twitter “proof” is an obvious joke, his tutorial itself is highly suspicious and contains several points that do not make sense.
Verdict: The PS4 Jailbreak by reckz0r is an obvious fake, stay away from it and every site that claims it is real
True to my philosophy of not giving free advertising to fakers, I am not pointing to any of the material posted by reckz0r, but you can easily google for it.
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Doesn’t really matter. This happens to every system. I wish this one had been a better fake, though. Those are more fun.
I would have to say that my favorite fake was the April fools one about a new ps3 exploit. I must say, I found ‘ll for it before I realized what day it was….
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> which can be found here at the time of this writing
where’s this fabled “here”? 🙂
all I did was look at the twitter image, and was like, “that’s awful long for a tweet. must be fake.” then I read the article – my thoughts were confirmed at “download links to a ps4 devkit”. how does one download a physical device? 😀
That’s what a 3D printer is for! 😛
I’m glad we have someone on our side that looks into things like this so we don’t have to.
(this is the only scene/hacking blog I check anyway, so I hadn’t heard of it :P)
Oops, me not checking properly before publishing. I initially wanted to point to the pastebin, then decided against it to not give the guy more @ublicity, but forgot to edit that sentence out. Will fix, thanks for pointing that out.
wololo, I remember you from the early days and what you did to the PSP-scene and almost couldn’t believe it when I saw your original website pop up on those “mainstream” websites to explain their faulty publications. I am truly happy with your recent endeavors and hope you can squeeze some professional medium out of this website because surely you are delivering greater content than any of those other self-proclaimed “scene-experts”.
I wish you all the best and feel truly sad for what happened, or rather did not happen, with the PSP scene. Because those, those were great times. You might not even read this, but I just wanted to say “thank you and good job”. Even though those times are long gone, they will stay in memory for a long time – hopefully for ever.
As you said, no company will comunicate using PR channel, you get served, not some lame twitter thing 🙂
Wow! First DAX returns and now this?!?! What a week!
But nobody claimed that DAX was returning. All that happened was a site update. No lies there.
Is that all you have left, wasting time on writing articles on scams… “You made me waste so many ‘minutes’ of my life”
you’re still around? That must suck….
The topic of each post is in its title, so you could just not read posts that you find boring.
speak for yourself
…So do you two know each other then?
Lol that was so funny. XD
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I don’t know if you have heard, but there is a Xbox One Nand Dumped and I want to hear your thoughts about it. The Xbox One Nand Dumped can be found here: http://www.xpgamesaves.com/page/index.html/_/latest-news/xbox-one-nand-dumped-r931
Also, there is a Daulshock 4 Controller mod that was released as well. Here is the link: http://team-xecuter.com/cronusmax-dualshock-4-fully-working-xbox360-ps3-pc-new-firmware/
I would like to hear what you have to say and if maybe they interest you. Maybe you can try the Daulshock 4 mod? I don’t know, but anyways, thanks!
tbh i don’t care about xbone. and controller mod, well it’s just a controller.
“A few scene websites categorized the article as “rumour”, which is a step in the right direction, but far from calling the fake for what it is.”
I guess you never seen my forum post’s or Tweets about it being fake, i write rumour on anything that i post which hasn’t been verified.
1.) I posted the story as soon as it came online, which was 5 hours before the stupid Twitter image, which was at least 7 hours before you posted here.
2.)Why are you always dictating how i should post, i mean i could start dictating and criticizing some of your posts.
3.) I post how and when i feel like it, i label something how i feel like labeling it, that’s something you are going to have to learn to cope with.
Nobody is dictating how you should write, he’s only giving advices on how to prevent your site from having a bad reputation due to misguiding users. If you are unable to see that then you should reconsider being a blogger.
I’m not a blogger, never have been, not sure where you get that misguided idea.
Also stating that its a fake, which i did, is hardly misguiding users, its easy being a smart *** when you post something several hours after everyone else has.
Also, i don’t need any advice from anyone, as i said, i write what i want, how i want, when i want, if you are deluded enough to think otherwise, then you are hugely misguided 🙂
Did Wololo call out your name or site and say that you are misguiding users? Did it come across your mind that he was not talking about you? Maybe he did read your ‘non-blogging’ forum posts and noticed that you did call it out as a fake. Should he have specifically mentioned that you are excluded from his non-specific statement about “some websites” so that you wouldn’t assume that he was talking about you?
His whole point was that simply labeling it “rumour” does not appropriately communicate that it is fake. Obviously, if you make a forum post (blogging or not) and tweet that it is fake, you are calling it out as a fake and would not really be relevant to Wololo’s comment that you seem so certain was targeted at you.
If you read the read the rest of what he said, he was referring to sites that think that the hack is real because of a lack of research. So unless that applies to you, you really shouldn’t be so defensive.
Probably just trolling, kinda weird of him to freak out like a schizo.
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Greg, you are one of the few sites that labeled the thing as a rumor which is great. But have the intellectual honesty to admit you didn’t spend any time researching who that guy was or if he had any credibility. There’s a reason you posted your article way before me: I spent a large amount of time researching before writing.
That being said, just so we’re clear: I am absolutely not talking about you when I say some sites are lame, but about mainstream blogs that did not even categorize this as a rumor.
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THAT SCREENSHOT! xP
Let’s play a game:
How many spelling & grammar mistakes did Sony make in their Tweets?
I count 3!
Ik snap Sony helemaal aan klagen die idioot, of Microsoft methode hem aan nemen en aan de beveiliging laten werken hahahaa
Sony ain’t stupid after PSP and PS3 hacks.
I have a PS4 hack, but you have to run it on your PC, it’s called PS4Hack.exe, or it’s more common name of How I got pwned by a lame encoder……
Pretty funny.
hohoh! every scene has their fair share of lamers.. but this fellow is probably the lamest of them all.
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