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Sony PS3 hacker Mathieulh published a PlayStation 3 and PSP Communication Processors Exploit today for other developers to examine followed by the Despertar Del Cementario and M33 source code (under GPLv3) for the M33 10th anniversary.

Download: Despertar Del Cementerio GIT / 3.90 M33 GIT

Sound interesting? Check out the PS3 and PSP Communication Processors Exploit details below!

Communication Processor

Hardware

• CXD9790GG (I/O)
• TCP-510 (Board ID on the DEH models such as DEH-R1040)
• TCP-520 (Board ID on the DECR-1000)

(TCP-510 matches the TMU-510 motherboard, while TCP-520 matches the TMU-520 motherboard) The PSP DTP-T1000 unit also sports a communication processor but it does not come as a separate board, the hardware is integrated/soldered directly to the motherboard, unlike the PS3 CP, it does not run the firmware from RAM (the PS3 CP copies the firmware from ROM to RAM at boot so changes are, by default not persistent) and therefore writes files directly to flash.

CEB units feature a PCI slot capable of harboring a CP daughterboard (Sony used such setups as System Debuggers before DEH units came along), CP boards switched to a proprietary interface and shipped to 3rd parties starting with DEH-Rx

Software

De/Encrypt Communication Processor updates

This is how to decrypt/encrypt Playstation 3 Reference Tool Communication Processor updates. (use this knowledge wisely)

This was achieved by exploiting the communication processor firmware and gaining root privileges on the running Montavista Linux. The key for the CP update packages is located within the toolupdatedec binary located at /usr/local/sony/bin/toolupdatedec

The update packages are just tar.gz packages encrypted using AES256CBC Here is the syntax to decrypt them :

The first 16 bytes of the package is the IV, the Second 16 bytes is the hash of the decrypted package.

So use this Syntax after skipping the...

We learned of Sony's codename Musashi just days ago for PS4 System Software v3.50, and today it's been leaked for those not in the Beta Testing program to check out!

Download: PS4-BETA2-3.50-PS4UPDATE.PUP (287 MB) / PS4-BETA2-3.50-PS4UPDATE.PUP (Mirror)

Some videos of Musashi PS4 Firmware 3.50 are also below from PS4 News.

Thanks to Frosty and @Jeff for the news tip!

Following the Wii-U Homebrew WIP, today Nintendo Wii-U homebrew developer Dimok789 released a Homebrew Launcher followed by v1.1 for WiiU owners alongside a full (runs Loadiine, Homebrew Launcher, etc) WiiU Kernel Exploit confirmed via NWPlayer1234 and Marionumber1 for Wii U 5.5.0 and 5.5.1 versions with videos below!

Following their PS4 3D Drivers and Patches, today fail0verflow released PS4 kexec-style code to load the Linux kernel from Orbis OS.

Download: ps4-kexec-master.zip / GIT / badiret.bin (Compiled) by KUNITOKI via 2424marco

Additional details are available below from Marcan via fail0verflow's Twitter updates, as follows:

Cheers to @kr105 for the news tip via the PSXHAX Shoutbox!

Today 'anonymous' hacker AK471337 has leaked the PS4 BadIRET Kernel Exploit source code according to PlayStation 4 developer CTurt, with details below from my post on PS4 News and the related Tweets below!

Download: PS4-Bad-IRET-master.zip / PS4-Bad-IRET-master.zip (Mirror) / PS4 Dongle.txt via choppa / kernel-1.76.rar via DotExE01 / badiret.bin (Compiled) by KUNITOKI via 2424marco / PS4-Bad-IRET-master-2.bin (Updated Mirror) / PS4-Bad-IRET-5fs.bin (Updated Mirror #2)

From Wololo comes some additional details as follows, to quote:

PS4 Kernel exploit – is it good news for you?

If you’re an en user with no programming skills, this exploit won’t be useful for you. You’d have to compile it and run it on a PS4 on firmware 1.76, through the...