Rumors of a PS4 4.50 hack
User racer0018 on scene website psxhax claims that he is in contact with a group of hackers working on PS4 exploits. The hackers allegedly are working on an exploit that works on the still-in-beta PS4 firmware 4.50.
Has PS4 4.50 already been hacked?
According to racer0018, the group has been looking for beta testers, who are comfortable with soldering a device on their PS4, with the potential risk of a brick. Additionally, candidates for the beta-tester position need to have a PS4 running the latest PS4 firmware, firmware 4.50, which is still in beta. racer0018 states:
Now what will be needed from this person. There is a couple of things that will be needed. 1st we will send you a device that has to be soldered onto the system, this will be done in 14 wires that is soldered onto the machine and then hooked to a USB cable to a computer.
We will also send you a program in python that has to be ran on the computer during this test. It will then run and will make a log file for that program on your computer and then you take and send that log file to the email we provide and that is about it.
There are lots of red flags with this announce. First of all, racer0018 himself. He’s a veteran of the PS3 scene with a mixed track record. The scener used to provide hardware mods for the PS3, with mixed satisfaction results from his customers. Some at the time would only go to him, praising the quality of his work, others felt they were cheated and never got their console back. It’s undeniable racer0018 has some hardware knowledge of the PS3, which could have given him the right connections. But none of his work has ever been connected to groundbreaking discoveries, rather I see it as a successful implementation of actual hackers’ work.
ps4 slim, photographed by Eurogamer.net
Secondly, the site he chose to make his announce. I hate to point fingers at other scene sites, but psxhax is one of the sites that always leaves me confused: these guys know what they are talking about to some extent, yet they also don’t hesitate to spread unverified rumors or complete lies without blinking. I’ve indirectly called them out several times on the quality of their articles, and have yet to see any improvement on their end. I have to assume nobody even tried to get some proof from racer00188 or from the hacking group he is in touch with. I’d love to be proven wrong, of course. Psxhax is also owned by the same people who own ps3news dot com, a site infamously known for the poor quality of its articles regarding the PS3 scene back in the days.
Last but not least, in my experience, legit hackers do not randomly ask for beta testers on a public forum. The people who can exploit consoles also typically know enough trusted people for their tests that they do not need to ask publicly for help. They also usually already have access to most of the hardware needed to perform their test, either directly or through their contacts.
So, we have a scener with a mixed track record, making a claim of an upcoming PS4 hack without a single proof, on a site with a mixed track record. Don’t get me wrong, again, I’d love to be proven wrong (I have a PS4 phat that’s been sitting on firmware 4.05 for a few months now, waiting for some public hack), but for now I’d qualify this as highly dubious at best.
Besides the claim of a PS4 hack, racer0018 states that people who join the team as beta testers would gain access to a private server containing information on Wii U and Xbox One hacks as well. Racer0018 had already said on the same site, 2 months ago, that the Xbox One was getting close to being hacked.
Of course feel free to get in touch with them and see if you can get in, but if anything I would advise to proceed carefully with anyone who asks you to provide them with anything coming from your PS4, in particular logs. Sony have a bad history of putting credentials and other critical information unencrypted on their systems.
We have contacted the owners of psxhax on social media asking for some kind of proof. I will update this article if they get back to us. Whether this turns out to be true or false, we’ll keep our PS4 Jailbreak page up to date.
Source: now removed to avoid free publicity for a site full of unverified info
The scene never spreads the process of searching and excecuting, we only know something when there is already something prepared and tested. This guy should keep his mouth before releasing news about because if he already have a mixed reputation, it may drop to low or 0 soon if all this *** is fake and he only wants to get some free consoles.
FIST
Good job
Fristi
nice try
To be fair, they did say fristi.
First
this is just stupid who cares.. nobody wants to read “firajfs” “gifslkg” “first” “sedco” all because yall are in such a rush to be “first” it is stupid and really just bring the quality of comments down.. look thru “wololo” any article has the same thing.. grow up..
Very interesting article Wololo. Always on the lookout for the users. We are on the same page here as I’m trying to fully trust this post on psxhax but without evidence whatsoever, this could be a well elaborate hax.
I’d purchase a PS4 Pro in a heartbeat if an exploit was released. Problem is, I still have a pretty large PS3 backlog of games that I haven’t finished yet…
First of all, BS! Secondly, Would you publicly announce a “defect” in a firmware that is currently in beta whether it’s a hardmod or not??!! This has dog turds written all over it.
Sony can’t fix the problem if no details are provided and if details were provided it would give others a chance to try and exploit the same bug
Good news, a little weird imho
My alarm screaming when he mentioning about log file on PC.
There so many NUBS today jeez Rumors -_-
Hope is true.. And I think.. first
No… I’m not O:-)
I hate to see people just smearing Racer0018 and nobody defending him. I personally do not think he has any development of a hack itself, but he is very knowledgeable about the hardware on both PS3 and PS4. Likely he is the frontman for a bigger scene. My dealings with him in terms of PS3 hardware and tools has been 100% satisfactory and he’s a great guy.
As I said, he’s had a mixed track record. I’m not trying to directly attack a guy I don’t know myself, but he’s making some very ballsy statements and has nothing to back them up. Giving him the benefit of the doubt I looked him up on google and found that he does not have a particularly brilliant history. Reminds me of xmax katsu in a way: has done a few legit things, but also a lot of false claims, very difficult to understand that kind of person. Then again, it’s also possible he’s in with people who truly believe they have something, but might also be far off. This wouldn’t be unheard of in the scene, where noob hackers think they have the next exploit just because they have a crash or were able to download an xml file through a proxy.
So not worth it, possibilities of bricking your ps4 just to connect a bus pirate type device for a logcat?
I’m advising everyone not to do this. To many risks involved with let guarantee of anything.
If you can get the python files mentioned, study it and don’t share it online, send it to wololo who might know someone that can use it.
Rumors? Maybe they will come true if spread well enough…(aka persona 2)
Cant sleep only wait for it 🙂
cant eat and sleep only wait for it
I have one ps4 from launch on 1.76 … so up until something worth while is out, i’ll keep it on that firmware… and keep ‘playing’ with what is already on the scene!
Another fake news by PsxHax users?
Searching for beta-testers in a public forum is the worst thing a hacker can do, what if volunteer is from Sony? lol
Next month, next rumour… I dont believe in hack, just wait and pray…
fake or not – lets hope it will be released after official FW 4.5 and not before otherwise it will be a waste (noone wants to get stuck on beta-CFW:)
Psxhax’s admin force members and moderators to share news, something big for the front-page, so they end up with rumors, deleted tweets, hypes and fake news.
If psxhax is correct wololo is ***.
Fix your mobile site btw, its the worst *** i have seen, above 75℅ adds
if psxhax is correct I’ll apologize and you can be sure this will be on the frontpage of wololo.net. Then again, I can’t remember a *single* time that I have called out psxhax or their former website ps3news and I turned out to be wrong. But what the heck do I know, I’ve only been on the scene for 11 years.
And point taken about the mobile site. I’m working with an external company for the layout and the ads, and the results are… what they are. Will improve with time.
Psxhax’s frontpage is like a false-positive pregnancy news! lol
I wonder if this has something to do with the new extenal hard drive support.
Nice
True or not, what the scene is lacking is someone willing to provide hombrew. The homebrew most are after, which is backup dumpers and loaders. A system running a freebsd hybrid on not to foreign hardware is no issue, yet since the ps4 got kernel access available to the user we have seen nothing publicly.
Hacking today has been tarnished with lawsuit fears, $ over pride for drm devices providers and lastly something to tease in the hope of a high end job offer in the computing science field.
This is clearly not the place to do it, but i’d bet my left nut if a high enough bounty with a reputable site was on offer a hack on latest firmware and loaders would creep out from under the rock their hiding almost instantly.
To me, thats a sad thing. Its like sport these days with the love of the game gone from the players perspective, playing for your team in the area you grew up gone all but finished. With whatever sporting team one follows selling local players and buying ones from your rival teams next season., kinda laughing at the fan who doesn’t see behind the curtain.
Hello, do You mean this user ? (racer0018)
http://www.ps3hax.net/showthread.php?t=63161
i will try it but i afraid about my ps4 :/
Hello Hmm after days and hours i finally can play remote play thanks all guys love you all ;))
He posted an update:
https://www.psxhax.com/threads/playstation-4-linux-running-on-4-50-beta-seeking-old-phat-ps4-tester.1671/page-11#post-18205
idiots. why do you think $ony have delayed the release of firmware 4.5? could it be this post?
they read posts like this and try to patch the holes you exploit so instead of having the firmware released and a lot of happy ps4 owners you wanted to make a name for yourself and they delayed its release.
next time shut up, wait for it to be released before going on about exploits.
so you wasted an exploit trying to make a name for yourself. happy ***!
About your comment on him asking for beta testers publiclly . You have to consider, not a ton of people have the PS4 Pro yet and even fewer of those have are beta testing the firmware. How else was he supposed to get his message out?
I concur. I wrote, moderated, admined, QA’ed, and “hacked” eboots when they were still needed and PS4HAX was not only inconsistent in the news they published but also loved gossip and flaming everyone who pointed this fact out back in the PS3 scene days. I would say now I’m being an ironic hypocrite for “talking trash” on them except you can ask several other admins, moderators, devs, members from a myriad of different sites that will confirm this.
Is rasbprry still copying the game for ps4?