Thread: PS Vita Exploit Confirmed

Not long after the PS Vita was released, Teck4 a PSP hacker/developer, found an exploit on the PS Vita within the PSP Emulator, now this is awesome news, but it does not mean the PS Vita is hacked, it simply means that an exploit has been found solely on the PSP section only.



The hello world is adapted from the Sparta SDK, which was created by PSP Developers Matiaz and Freeplay.

Mamosuke who reported the hack last week, created a video to proof the exploit existed and today Wololo updated his website with information and released a video of proof, here is a quoter from the source:

Last week, an exploit on the PS Vita through the PSP emulator was announced by Mamosuke. The exploit was found by Teck4, and, we won’t stress it enough, is a PSP exploit that gives us user mode access within the PSP emulator on the Vita. So this is not a Vita exploit per se, but it’s still very cool. Mamosuke confirmed this with a video a few days ago, and today I was able to confirm the exploit myself as shown in the video below (and I must admit that I spent way too much time working on that basic flame effect). The video below shows the exploit running on both a PSP 1000 and the PS Vita.

I spent a good amount of time today confirming some of my hopes that it will be possible to run HBL, at least to some extent, with that exploit. It doesn’t mean I have ported HBL to the Vita yet, but I have strong hopes this will be possible. A handful of hackers are working on bringing HBL to the Vita (I won’t mention their names here as I don’t know if they want to be contacted on the subject), and it should be “relatively” easy to get something to work fairly soon. (It should be noted though that the Vita is quite sensitive and crashed on me several times when it went into “sleep” mode from the exploit screen… from there – am I just paranoid? – it seems it is impossible to reboot the machine for almost 10 minutes, which made me think I had bricked my vita… could it be a anti-hacking security? If the console detects several crashes, it takes longer to boot, in order to prevent brusteforce types of attacks?)

I won’t discuss any release yet, it doesn’t depend on me only (this is, after all, Teck4′s exploit), but if I have my opinion to give on the subject, I would suggest to wait until the Vita is released in Europe and in the US. This gives us some time to polish HBL on this device, and hopefully the vulnerabilities we use to run HBL won’t have been patched by then.

This is of course just a challenge with little to no practical interest… once we publicly reveal the exploit (in particular, the game used in it), it will be extremely easy for Sony to patch it (or remove the game from the Playstation Store), so probably only a few people will be able to benefit from it… but only time will tell, there is still hope, after all, that Sony doesn’t care about a tool that allows us to run user mode psp homebrews in a sandboxed emulator.

source: ps3hax

Oh boy..



Im pretty sure this been posted

Edit:
Oh its the old news that got confirmed I see. :D

Originally Posted by justanothajb

Oh boy..



Im pretty sure this been posted

If so please post the link

Originally Posted by Nateblitz16

If so please post the link

it's in the rumors section. and this is only for PSP mode.

Originally Posted by Popman

it's in the rumors section. and this is only for PSP mode.

Okay but its not the same thing this is like an update.

Good job :D
Maybe not everything that gets front paged at hax is news. Just a thought.
Or maybe they can merge this with the old rumour as an update.

Originally Posted by Nateblitz16

Okay but its not the same thing this is like an update.

ah, though it's just a different program being run with the same exploit.

Wtf, the vita isnt out everywhere yet, and it's scene seems to be progressing really fast.

the ps3's been out for like 4-5 years now, and it's progressing really fking slow :/.

Originally Posted by N1K0

Wtf, the vita isnt out everywhere yet, and it's scene seems to be progressing really fast.

the ps3's been out for like 4-5 years now, and it's progressing really fking slow :/.

there was a PS2 based exploit on the PS3 within months. it just wasn't any good for running PS3 games so it was forgotten.

Originally Posted by Popman

there was a PS2 based exploit on the PS3 within months. it just wasn't any good for running PS3 games so it was forgotten.

well, it seems that people actually care about progressing with the vita scene...