Volodymyr Pikhur to Give PS4 Presentation at Recon Brussels 2018

Similar to GeekPwn, the CCC Conference, Zer0Con and Tencent Security Conference hacker Volodymyr Pikhur who previously shared a demo of his PS4 IPL AES + HMAC Key Recovery Project will be giving a PS4 presentation at Recon Brussels 2018 on February 3rd at 16:00.

Here are the details from their conference page, to quote:

By: Volodymyr Pikhur
Scheduled on: February 3 at 16:00

This presentation will talk about how custom Southbridge silicon, responsible for background downloads while main SoC is off, didn’t help to secure PlayStation 4.

It will explain how a chain of exploits combined with hardware attacks will allow code to run in the context of the secure bootloader, extract private keys, and sign a custom kernel.

From the Github page, to quote: REcon 2018

This presentation will talk about how custom Southbridge silicon, responsibe for background downloads while main SoC is off, didn’t help to secure Playstation 4. It will explain how a chain of exploits combined with hardware attacks will allow code to run in the context of the secure bootloader, extract private keys, and sign a custom kernel.

https://recon.cx/2018/brussels/talks/die_mode.html

• Mess with the best die like the rest mode by Volodymyr Pikhur - REcon Brussels 2018.pdf

PlayStation 4 Rest Mode DEMO REcon Brussels 2018

Download: ps4-hen-vtx.bin (7.20 KB - HEN with rest mode patches enabled) / ps4hen.bin (7.17 KB - test 2 for rest mode)

 

[FrogDR]

i think is gonna be the something like we see when china guys show 4.05 kexploit with linux long time ago.. I wonder if this russian hacker use a latest big bug in intel and arm processors

P.S. Sorry for english. I never lerne it..

 

[johnny walker]

let's pray

 

[FFTHEWINNER]

Most likely nothing will come out of this... I mean he's not just going to risk Sony coming after him, just so others could use it for backups.

He just wants to showcase the possibilities, he won't reveil his tricks!

unfortunately, that is the most likely scenario. other than a few great guys, no one releases anything. i wish there was a permanent hardware hack like the 360's for the PS4/Xbox One. that way we would pay once then never worry again about updates and whatnot. thankfully the Switch seems like it will get that atleast

 

[vampirexx]

Any news about the meeting?

 

[Floroiu]

I was searching myself... everywhere is quiet ...

 

[Floroiu]

found this !!

 

[Nachiket]

https://github.com/hwroot/Presentations?files=1

 

[Floroiu]

ok... so..whats the next step here ?

 

[FFTHEWINNER]

took a look at the PDF with his presentation. it is very interesting. i do wonder if his talk was recorded though.

 

[Denisuu]

Yea very interessting but way above my head. You think it's useful for dev's?