Its announcement was made about a month ago, and yesterday it was presented at the 31st edition of the 31C3 congress ( Chaos Communication Congress). The Fail0verflow group has managed to access the kernel of the system through a exploit low level, that is, exploiting a vulnerability that gives the user the possibility of executing commands with system privileges.

A fairly recent vulnerability that seems to affect all those consoles whose system version does not exceed 1.76. Through a video of almost 5 minutes, the group of hackers, Widely known for violating the security of other consoles in the past such as PS3, Wii or Wii U and allowing the execution of free code in them, it shows the operation of its system based on the official distribution of the Sony console.Īlthough for now there is no detailed information on how the process is carried out In order to gain access to the low-level instructions, it appears that the source of the vulnerability is in the engine of the system's own web browser, based on webkit. The Fail0verflow team has done it again, They have gotten Hacked a Playstation 4 (PS4) and install a fully functional Linux distribution in her.

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