News Summary

• In my almost 20 years of experience in the scene now, I have seen countless attempts at gathering money to fund the efforts of security researchers: gathering more than $1000 for a very promising lead is the exception, not the norm..
• As much as some people want to believe it, there is no way the scene could collectively gather enough money to consistently pay a $10’000 bounty for a Jailbreak..
• The hacker was (no so) subtly indicating he had something big in store.There wasn’t much doubt that this was a Kernel exploit for either the PS5 or PS4 (or both), but his message this week on LinkedIn is another confirmation..
• by wololo · December 31, 2023PlayStation hacker TheFloW has taken to LinkedIn to confirm he has been awarded yet another $10K by PlayStation’s bounty program on HackerOne..
• I personally think this situation benefits both the scene and professional hackers..
• If your PS5 is on Firmware above 8.xx at this point (and unless you just got it for Christmas this year), you’ll only have yourself to blame if you missed out on whatever comes next..