PS3 Hacker Mathieulh Finds PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.56 Exploit

Today PS3 hacker Mathieulh reports finding a PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.56 exploit, although he states he has no plans to give any further details about it.

To quote from PSX-Scene: Well-known hacker Mathieu Hervais has reportedly found a bug that allows exploiting metldr, the bootloader and firmware version 3.56.

[MGRogue2017]

Sony, You know what to do. >:)

"FINISH HIM!" - http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[FantasyStar]

Send him some free stuff and a congratulatory pat on the back with a shirt that says

"I was the first to jailbreak PS3 Firmware 3.56, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."

http://www.wired.com/gadget...

[Wenis]

But they've still yet to 'finish' Geohot.

[PlayerX]

Lol only on n4g do you see people defending corporations using bulling tactics and bogus lawsuits to scare people into not hacking their product. I am no fan of piracy, but this is just sad. If any other company did this n4g would be ripping them apart.

[evrfighter]

ya it's not everyday you see the little people ready to take up arms for the mega conglomerates.

These are truly troubling times we live in.

[PirateThom]

I think you people fail to see the impact hacking has on the community. Apart from the fact no one is stopping people hacking their own consoles and Sony are going after those that distribute the material to do it, those hacks and aimbots don't just happen to appear one day in games.

If you defend the hackers, you defend hacking, you defend cheating, you defend destroying online interactions.

[Eamon]

Actually PirateThom, nothing is happening to the community.

Every other console has been hacked and has had little to nothing effect. Plain and simple.

"If you defend the hackers, you defend hacking, you defend cheating, you defend destroying online interactions."

^ You sound like the US government making propaganda about Iraq. "You're either with us or against us."

[deafwing]

another one looking for online fame ... lame.
how about hacking the worlds problems guy?

[DaTruth]

Maybe they just owned a PSP? That's all it takes to appreciate the destructive effects of cracking! If it wasn't for Japan and Sony's commitment to supporting their hardware, we wouldn't have any good games on PSP now.

It's weird to see PC gamers who will soon be playing their consolized version of Crysis 2(DX9) defending cracking that leads to piracy. If it wasn't for piracy, you guys would be playing a real Crysis 2 by now.

And don't give me that, "teh Crysis sold 2 million" crap; how many of those were sold for 9.99 on Steam sales.

[Soldierone]

LMAO have you not seen the PSP and PC problems? Developers are jumping ship on PC because they cant sell more than pirates are stealing.

Then Sony is getting threats from developers leaving the PSP because pirates have ruined that too.

Fact is defending theives and cheaters is a lot bigger of a stupid action than defending Sony. Which by the way is fighting on behalf of the entire industry, not just PS3. The only people mad at that are the theives themselves. So next time dont even bother saying "oh i dont like pirates or anything"

[Pandamobile]

Uh, DaTruth, Crysis sold 3 million retail units.

[MintBerryCrunch]

the guy says he wont reveal the exploit

so all of you who didnt bother to click the link, think before you ask for someones head on a stick

[Eamon]

The reason why a lot of PC developers are jumping to consoles isn't due to piracy.

It's because to buy a gaming PC to play the games properly is more expensive than buying a console. These days most people get laptop computers which can't be upgraded CPU or Gfx wise.

Also, there is a much bigger market and audience on console than PC.

[paintsville]

Lookout...."mandatory&quo t; firmware update coming in..alert...alert!!!

[gamingdroid]

I think what MS did with the ChevronWP7 hack was a good thing. They got it off the market, with no lawyers involved and the hackers got a compromise.

Win-win for everybody except for the greedy lawyers.

Sony should do the same instead of getting all this bad publicity and huge legal cost incurred.

[Dante112]

@ a_bro

Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the subpoena thing (Geohot's contacts). They probably are watching him as well as everyone who checks in on his twitter.

Edit: "although he states he has no plans to give any further details about it."

Wise move. Think he'll go to Sony with this for one "get outta lawsuit card" as well as a job offer if what he claims is legit? Or risk it?

[elmaton98]

you know ive been hearing that when you buy something, its yours right? anyway, if you hacked anything and if you release it to the public then its illegal otherwise its not. this is what geodick would have done in the first place so if woulnt be in this mess( if i was him, i would be enjoying all those free games) great move from him not to release the exploit BTW.

[bub16]

elmaton98

there would be no "free" games if the hacks hadnt come out...

[Look_Behind]

LOL I was running homebrew on my PS3 before geohot came onto the scene. 3.41 jailbreak ftw. At least that jailbreak took a bit of effort.

[Soldierone]

The funny thing is there probably are hackers that had broken the PS3 and were getting free games but staying quiet about it. Then Geodick probably ruined it by alerting Sony and now none of them are able to go online haha.

[Thugbot187]

It's not like the guy released the hack. He said look you guys got a bug its not full proof. All we can see with this whole thing is the original bug can't really be patched.

[darksied]

Now this is my kind of hacker. Says he has a hack, but doesn't release it to the public. Good job, now keep it that way. The minute he releases any information about this hack online, I'm all for Sony busting down his door and throwing his ass in jail. Until then ... nice coding skills, I guess?

[Christopher]

Not to be rude... but with the metldr known by all, isn't this going to be the standard news with every single FW upgrade? I mean, there is absolutely no way Sony can now prevent hackers from creating CFW. What they want to stop is the open distribution of their modified IP.

[AKA]

im glad that not everyone is a everyday sheep like you.

people wake up, read or wach some malcolm x history and few others like the yippies and etc
stop been a sheep.

on topic its very clear that anything is hack-able and im just glad that poor people are going to enjoy good games and have a better day.

[darksied]

"im just glad that poor people are going to enjoy good games and have a better day."

Ah, so your argument is that poor people should be able to pirate games? Unless I misunderstood what you were saying, then let me argue this point. So a "poor person," as you put it, can pirate games. How did they afford that ps3 or 360 they're playing on, which costs more than a few games? What about a car, shouldn't poor people be able to enjoy a nice and expensive car to enjoy themselves and have a better day? They're poor, who cares if they steal it, right?

A video game system is NOT a necessity to live, it's almost a luxury item. A cell phone is actually more important to every day life nowadays, and a video game system is not even close. There's a lot of poor people out there, and I'm even on the border of that, but the last thing a person with low income should be doing is having "a better day" by playing video games when they have more important things to do.

Sorry for the rant, but that argument is one that is brought up often, but it's terrible. Life, libery, etc. are guaranteed to a person, not having fun playing video games.

[AKA]

in Venezuela a brand new games for it first few weeks cost more then the console, im not going to give you 100 more examples.
try going out from your pretty life and you may understand that life is not only what you know or the hollywood movies tells you.

you enjoy your game and let them njoy the games have fun and let others have fun, games sale well and the workers get paid, nobody gets hurt or have got hurt, yeah maybe SONY is mad that pirates dont need to buy a blu ray burner or blank dics and that ks why they are mad, because everything is digital and they cant profit from it.

[Kos-Mos]

Haha. Laugh of the day. Finish him. Next one will be the sodomian cliffy.

[a_bro]

PS3 Hacker Mathieulh Gets Sued by sony

EDIT: com'n man, you dont actually believe that a sony employee isnt watching this, dont you? lets not kid ourselves here.

[FantasyStar]

You never know ;) -They put up forum posts as "evidence" against geohot. They donated a $1 to geohot's paypal account to try and prove he was accepting donations when he proved that he wasn't. They drag him from New Jersey to try and break him by means of attrition. They stage a police raid on graf_chokolo's house. They send out numerous DMCA Takedown notices to github, google, and sourgeforge. They tried to subpoena the IPs of all the computers that viewed geohot's videos. They tried to appeal to the CA Judge to remove all traces of the hack from the internetLOL!). They sued LG to try and stall smartphone sales against their Xperia brand.

Sony is capable of any kind of shenanigans at this point bro. Why I wouldn't be surprised if Sony had spybots in our PS3 monitoring us and whatever we do in case we do something naughty.

OH WAIT.

*googles PS3 3.56 Rootkit and new PSN ToS*

[beavis4play]

seems like EVERY post you make is nothing but trolling -

why do you act like such an @ss?

[gamingdroid]

Let's not forget the rootkit scandal with audio cd's!

[kneon]

@beavis4play

Maybe he's not acting :)

[lee_ten]

...why don't you do something constructive with your life instead of trolling a gaming site?

[DaTruth]

Obviously, Sony's intention is to make it too much trouble to bother cracking their software and distributing cracks, all for just a little notoriety and a couple of donation bucks you couldn't possibly make a living on.

This guy would probably be distributing this now, if it weren't far too much trouble and risk!

If you invested billions of dollars into something and had a team of lawyers on your payroll, wouldn't you do anything to protect your investment, including using said lawyers since your paying them anyways?

To protect billions of dollars, some corporations actually kill people and spend millions paying off politicians!

[Mahr]

"PS3 Hacker Mathieulh Gets Sued by sony"

Sue him for what? For *claiming* to have found an exploit?

[rrw]

at least he shut up and not releasing the exploit

[ziggurcat]

nothing will happen if he keeps it to himself.

he could do the honourable thing and inform sony, in private, of the exploit.

[ziggurcat]

not sure where the disagreement with above statement is about.

unless you disagree that he should do the right thing and inform sony so they can fix the alleged exploit?

[IRetrouk]

its not important, as long as there are games there will be pirates n hackers and everything that goes with it.

[2v1]

sony sue him plz.
or ban his ps3.
thank you.

[Godmars290]

Sounds like he's too scared/smart to generally release the information.

Which is probably what Sony meant to achieve with the Geohot suit.

[bub16]

hes dropping the hint to give other hackers somewhere to look and release the info

[Godmars290]

So he's just showing he's not a glory hound like Geohot.

[radphil]

"So he's just showing he's not a glory hound like Geohot."

If he really did find an exploit, it's a smart move tbh. Loud barking from the other names brings unwanted attention.

[morganfell]

But if mathieulh wasn't a glory hound we would never have known of his actions...or his name. But he is what he is.

You can be sure that if he shares this quietly with someone and it leaks out it will get traced back to him. Then he is screwed. His ego just wouldn't let him keep his mouth shut.

[Eamon]

As far as I can see, the only significance of his message is to motivate other hackers to find the exploit that he has found (if he did).

I don't think he wants the responsibility and lawsuits etc but it's true that his ego makes him want to have credit for being first even if someone else releases info about this exploit.

[radphil]

"I don't think he wants the responsibility and lawsuits etc but it's true that his ego makes him want to have credit for being first even if someone else releases info about this exploit."

That's generally how some hackers act. They want to be known that they were one of the first to find a situation, but don't want to glorify themselves to the masses.

[SlyFoxC]

o please release it...so sony can take you down too!

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

Why so butthurt kid?

[MiloGarret]

The average age of commentators on this site must be under 12. Seriously, it's messed up how people are willing to support this gazillion-dollar corporation that cares only about their wallets. It's fucking insane.

I hope the ps3 gets hacked to shreds, that it becomes the most pirated console in the history of consoles. Not because I dislike Sony, or the ps3, oh no. Simply because I want to see tools like Pirate Tom and the rest of the retards on this site cry, cry like babies.

[kudakadere]

i think that if your are gonna hack , use it for personal reasons but not online were you can ruin it for others .And don't share with others so they can exploit it , in other words 1 person hacking won't cost developers a noticeable percentage of hard earned money.

[BigDollarZoe954]

No exploit found. Sick of efamers.

If you don't release it, then you don't have it, and should be treated as a liar. If all efamers were treated as liars and shunned by the community, then this would stop

[StupidDude]

If anything, good on him for not releasing it into the wild.

Looks like Sony's plan worked

[Dante112]

@ 8thnight

Idk, who knows. here's what he said.

"I hesitated a lot before tweeting about it, but a bug allows exploiting metldr, the bootloader and 3.56+. I don't intent to ever unveil it. So much for "unhackable" ps3s though...."

[FantasyStar]

Basically he didn't say it outright, but he implied, letting others know where to look.

This is going to be exciting in the land of Sony. ;)

[8thnightvolley]

it will be released eventually ...

[shoddy]

have to hae for the hacker to hack the new fw.

by then newer fw will release.

cycle continoue.

[Fatal Blow]

This is what the guy said

I hesitated a lot before tweeting about it, but a bug allows exploiting metldr, the bootloader and 3.56+. I don't intent to ever unveil it.

so its not gonna happen people he wont release it so there is no point in saying finish him sony etc

[NexGen76]

You don't know Math really good...He not going to release it but I'm willing to bet he will tell other hackers where to look like always that just how Math work.

[Fatal Blow]

Do you know him if not please don't speculate

a true man all ways keeps his word

[Chromer]

FantasyStar. Why am I not surprised?

[thebudgetgamer]

yea, i hope he keeps advertising himself so the sony lawyers can finf him easier.

[MrBeatdown]

I'm annoyed by all the trouble hackers have caused for those who choose not to hack (more firmware updates, hacked games), but I can actually respect this guy for not releasing it to the masses, if he is indeed telling the truth.

By pointing out the bug, it means Sony can identify it before the hackers.

[Barajas_201]

gay hackers

[blackburn5]

This is getting old and monotonous. They are still trying to do something most of us never wanted in the first place. I am also tired of the flimsy excuses used to justify what they are doing. Who do they think they are fooling anyway? This is not about 'helping' us Sony owners anymore, IF it ever was. This has turned into just some childish, egotistical, defiance against Sony.

[rajman]

He says he found an exploit then says he wont unveil it? lol why even bother to come out and say that? Great way to attract Sony onto himself

[Apollyn]

Sony Defence force !! To the rescue!

http://moviechopshop.com/wp...

[DangerTick]

I don't get it. You say Sony "Defence" force but then post a picture of Halo characters? I think you've got the wrong defense force.

[rajman]

Thats Power Rangers...not Halo lol

[Apollyn]

.....FacePalm

[Eamon]

LOL!!! Epic Fail!

[PapaSmurf11]

I don't particularly like Halo, but WTF DangerTick?

[Holeran]

Unbelieveable, making a news story on something that 98% of the population doesn't want to hear about because they are pissed off that it is happening to begin with while 2% of the population revels in it. Quit trying to popularize the waste that the vast majority of the population threw away some time ago because it was trash to begin with.

[HarryB]

I am not going to defend someones right to play super nes and n64 games on a superior system so I can say "its their right" Negative. I won't. Because the more people hack the ps3 the more 3rd party companies are going to stop making games for the ps3.

Glad I bought a xbox360 anyway, I got my ps3 and I used to play mw2 because I got tired of blackops. But the cheaters hacked the hell out of the game.

Why the hell would I support a movement of morons who encourage people to hack their systems ? So they can own me in a video game ? Get a life.

[ChristianGamer]

You guys realise that he WILL release it, just won't be with his usual handle

[Raider69]

Actually this so call hacker Mathieulh likes to brag it self!he is not very well view in the PS3 hacking community due to is false god complex!This is probably a lie just to get some attention."I find it but i dont intend to release it"Its not the first time he states to find a method and end up not been true!

[Silly gameAr]

W.T.F.????

[PapaSmurf11]

Once again, in Human.

[Silly gameAr]

I love the fact that I don't have to jump through hoops just to play a game or three.

[wissam]

At least it took some time.

[Ddouble]

All this trouble. It just ain't worth it.

[dkgshiz]

I found and exploit with firmware 3.56...but I wont release it into the wild. You guys are just going to have to take my word for it....k?

[PapaSmurf11]

Seriously, Sony you need to lock your shit down before you let it go live :/

[Vega75]

Well looks like Sony will be releasing that new firmware earlier than expected. The next few weeks will be interesting to see what Sony does.

Congratz to MathIeulh if this is true.

[-X-]

Well at least he is playing it safe. Personally I still don't know the whole case of Sony v. Hotz. I don't know what Sony is looking for by suing Geo Hotz. I'm guessing just for him to stop releasing information.

Congratz to the guy who found a way past 3.56 FW.

Hopefully this gets resolved quickly. I really don't care who wins.

[Sarobi]

gotzzz to love them exploits

[Undeadwolfy]

@those who think hes going to get sued

Of course Sony wont sue him. At least he hasn't released the code to everyone and been a real douche like Geohotz (or w/e his name is).

Its a shame he came out and tweeted it but the main thing is hes kept it under wraps. If he hasn't gone online to ruin other peoples experiences or pirate anything, he has my respect.

[onenut]

oh Christ!! and i found a cure to cancer but i'm not going to release it
i thought he retired?

i hope someone else finds this exploit and releases it so Sony can go raid Mathieulh's house so he can get the credit he deserves for speculating on something that was inevitable

[PS3BURN]

I say go for it. Hack the shit out of PS3..

[hadouken007]

No one's benefiting from these hacks or exploits, so what's the point?

[NotSoSilentBob]

Once again it is about getting control of the system to play illegally pirated software on ones own console not the whole cry that Hackers/HomeBrewers started with of running their own(Personally wrote code) software. It is all about piracy and that fact will always be there.