PS4 Jailbreaking

Following rumors of a PS4 Jailbreak USB Whistle & CFW, today juampa21 of ConsoleCrunch.com reports news of an upcoming PS4 Cobra USB Game Emulator (DRM Device) with details below.

To quote: "Hello dear crunchers its juampa21 and today I bring you some exciting news about the PS4 scene!

So according to the Cobra Team they are planning to announce and release the COBRA USB PS4 game emulator which will make PS4 users be able to enable homebrew applications and may allow play non-copyrighted downloaded games on their PS4 system!

Here i provide you some images about the post!"

That said, if anyone has an account there and can mirror the pictures elsewhere we'll add them to this article as well.

PSA: For those considering such a DRM device, keep in mind the notorious history of ringleaders Max Louarn (aka MAXiMiLiEN of Paradox) and Gary Wayne Bowser (aka GaryOPA) of the Cobra Team... over the years they've profited from countless scene developers work wrapping it in their own digital rights management packages including the original PSJailbreak, TrueBlue dongle, etc instead of keeping the scene FREE and OPEN SOURCE.

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Thanks @sEKTOR for the news tip!

Updated from Wololo, to quote: ''So is this a mutating rumor here? The author of the originating “news” does not point to any source for his information, and has been a member of the forum where the rumor was initially posted, for less than 2 month.

I contacted people close to the Cobra team who have told me Team Cobra is not currently working on the PS4. The only ongoing known project of Team Cobra is the Cobra Blackfin for PS Vita, which has been...

Following rumors of a PS4 USB Whistle, n3tw0rkgod made available a PS4 1.76 Kernel ELF for PlayStation 4 hackers to examine alongside some more FreeBSD exploits and a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) from CTurt.

Download: kernel-1.76.elf.gz (14.7 MB) / kernel-1.76.elf.gz (Mirror) / kernel-1.76.elf (Mirror #2) / kernel-1.76.elf (Mirror #3) / PoC for kernel stack overflow in sysctl handler for kern.binmisc.add

And the related Tweets, as follows:

This is just a rumor making rounds on the net at this point, but h3ck34 has been tweeting recently that a PS4 jailbreak device called the USB Whistle will be coming on February 20th with a PS4 CFW arriving no later than a month later on March 20th.

Is it legitimate? According to Wololo: "There are growing rumors that a group affiliated with the Cobra team (a team popular for some of their PS3 hardware mods, and the same team that announced the – yet to be released – cobra blackfin for PS Vita) have been working on a PS4 Jailbreak usb dongle."

Download: BF_manual.rar / Blackfin-1.0.rar / ADI Blackfin GNU Toolchain / Blackfin Software / EVAL-ADICUP360
While it wouldn't surprise me if the Cobra PS3 scene profiteers started milking the PS4 scene dry instead of releasing open-source freeware, I'm not holding my breath on this rumor being true just yet.

Below are some related tweets, feel free to comment with your own thoughts on the USB Whistle rumor:

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Following news of the PS4 Kernel Exploit, PlayStation 4 developer CTurt revealed details today on FreeBSD vulnerabilities in AMR ioctl handler and a possible kernel buffer overflow in hpt_set_info for PS4 hackers to further examine and perhaps exploit.

Download: 48d6f11271b93a265184de813e32dba8f5cf76f9.zip

Sound interesting? Check out the related links below via Twitter:

Following the recent PS4 3.11 Out of Bound Read (Freetype 64bit Exploit), fail0verflow's PS4 patches and drivers and his previous PlayStation 4 Kernel Exploitation, today PS4 developers CTurt and Qwertyoruiop revealed news of a PS4 kernel heap overflow exploit alongside an analysis of sys_dynlib_prepare_dlclose for PlayStation 4 developers to examine further.

Below are some recent Tweets on their latest PS4 kernel exploit, as follows:

Finally, from Wololo comes a summary of their findings thus far with it, to quote:

• The exploit has been patched around firmware 2.00, so it will not be useful for people expecting a PS4 hack on the latest firmware 3.15.
• Cturt also announced that he will not release a fully weaponized exploit, and is just sharing the knowledge on how the vulnerability was exploited.
• He’s apparently actively working on the PS4 with other hackers such as Qwertyoruiop (a well know hacker famous for his work on iOS, among other things).
• The exploit itself lies in function sys_dynlib_prepare_dlclose and some of its internal calls such as copyin. Full details can be found in CTurt's article.