PS Vita 3.61 Hack: beware of scam sites!
This can’t be avoided, but after the HENkaku exploit release for Vita firmware 3.60, and the release of official PS Vita firmware 3.61 by Sony a few days afterwards, several websites are claiming they have a HENkaku hack for PS Vita 3.61.
Such sites include ps4portal dot net (which to add insult to the injury blatantly plagiarizes wololo.net’s articles). Note: For the scene’s sake don’t go there, you’d just be giving them points in the eyes of google and ranking engines.
These sites’ claims are false, and, best case scenario they will send you down a rabbit hole chasing a “password” for a zip or rar file. In general you will never be able to retrieve that password, but these websites want you to believe that by answering some surveys (for which they get paid) you’ll get the password. Even if you manage to get the password, the zip/rar file will not contain a PS Vita 3.61 hack, since such a thing doesn’t exist at the time of this writing. They get paid for your work answering the surveys or clicking the ads, but you get nothing, and certainly not a hack for your PS Vita 3.61.
Worst case scenario, these sites contain malware, which could go from minor things such as facebook like-jacking (the site makes you like their facebook page without you knowing through some html/javascript trickery), to much more dangerous malware that could harm your computer.
Many people who are new to the scene think they might have found “something” that the main scene websites haven’t found. Keep this in mind: there are dozens of people who dedicate a huge part of every single day chasing the latest information on PS Vita hacking. This includes myself and many, many people who have been on the scene for a long time. We get people who tip us within minutes of any relevant announce in the scene.
Because of this, when a hack is available for the latest PS Vita firmware, you can expect the information to be on the frontpage of scene websites such as wololo.net, hackinformer, psx-place, playstationhax.it and others within 24h of the announce. There’s no such thing as a secret hack that the scene websites won’t talk about but that a random site you’ve never heard of is willing to give to you on their page in exchange for completing a survey or other random task.
There are trusted scene websites such as your very own wololo.net that will be the first ones to get you real information if and when a hack is available for firmware 3.61.
Great posy
That’s why I come here for any news thanks wololo your going to save people a lot of time and effort ive seen this with iPhone jailbreaks in the past
Also, people should follow YifanLu, TheZett, Davee, frwololo, and Hackinformer to name a few on twitter to keep up to date with Vita related hacks, but don’t bug them too much.
the fact that this is a scam is plain and obvious because they effectively claim it can enable hombrew on firmwares later than 3.61 and nobody can guarantee that, the firmware isn’t out yet and nobody but sony knows what will be in that firmware, also not to mention that for anyone watching reputable news channels they will know that 3.61 eliminated the HENkaku bug
3.61 came out a few days ago lol
Seems kind of obvious but i can understand people that don’t know any better would get fooled
Foursth!!!
Or later :’)
So bad , if someone would believe ?
Thank you for this article. Hopefully this will keep at least a few people from falling for scams like this.
Funny you point out plagiarism on those sites, when this site is all about breaking intellectual property. Don’t get me wrong I love pirating games.
Except it doesn’t, and it’s not, and shut up you ***.
We have a very strict policy again copyright infringement on this site. But ok, I get your point, I guess…
I’d say this site is more about the love of tinkering and making something do something it can, but wasn’t intended to. The “piracy” is just a product of the user. For all they now, we all own and dump our own games and systems 😉
Well Wololo and the team post relevant information regarding exploits. How those are used are up to the user.
He’s pretty transparent about everything he does. Give the guy a break.
First ***
Thanks for the head’s up.
Also that sites even looks like wololo.
Will they plagiarize this article?
that would be hilarious lol
So first? I hate scammers and their surveys.
Wow all comments before me suddenly appeared haha
Some people may say, ‘isn’t it a little obvious?’, but it’s always good to remind people of the obvious from time to time. It’s easy to see complacency these days with regard to technology and today’s average user is not exactly ‘security conscious’.
Thanks for grinding out the warnings.
If people never fell for those scams there would actually be no need to harp on it. Fact remains, people do unfortunately fall for that ***.
Just kidding Wololo, this site has great intentions. Vita finally cracked!
people like those are ***. and should be shot and killed just like PSN card gen makers.
Please stop hacking the vita the Fri is coming for you who hack our vita.
It kinda *** me off that sony can abandon the vita, move all vita exclusives to the console, still sell vitas, and only update to patch hacks and people sill get touchy about piracy. The ps vita is the only handheld that deserves piracy. People shouldnt pay sony or its developers a dime for the ps vita. Its so sad the ps vita isnt anything but a ps4 controller these days or a handheld capable of playing crummy ports. Smh this patch is pathetic
existed for release this new version ? It takes too long to emerge news to install emulators in 3.61 ?
Unlock existed for 3.61 ?
Will iy rver be possible to do it on 3.61? i was waiting for weeks for it to work but my brother uptaded it to play *** *** smarphone games like joypack joyride and now my ps vita became obsolete, i am infuriated cause i never tought there would be a full homebrew unlock such as the cfw on the PSP i live in *** Brazil so this *** costs around 150$ if not more due to taxes.
Hey Wololo, this page is stealing your posts, as you can see on this address:http://notytech.com/2016/08/15/hack-ps-vita-3-61-henkaku-fake/ , is violating your administrator’s rights
God *** damnit. I updated to 3.61 because of ps4 portal. Is there anyway to change back? Even so, if I do change back, when ever I installed molecule (after powering off) it always made my vita slow down to a crawl. Any help with either?
Thanks for the info! I’m new to the vita scene so I’m glad I ran across this and didn’t try to download any *** scam software.
hi can i play now hack game on ps vita 3.60 HENkaku
I just get scamed by this website that offer 3.60+ hack, with I stoped in time (did not complete the *** survey) and remove this rar archive quickly. Those guys are really son of ***. I would like to thank you for this article from France.
Congratulations for post!!!
je suis francais et jaimerai savoir comment installé vitashell sur ma ps vita 3.63
merci
That piece of *** is a scam.
I got the password for this file Passw0rdforzip12426165&*11
It doesn’t work. Still says incorrect password.
And i know that this thing is a scam
wololo is the best. I love you so much.. thanks for this info I also ran into scammer