Pirates managed to hack PS5 firmware 7.61

As it became known, several researchers managed to successfully hack firmware 7.61 of the PS5. This happened thanks to an exploit found in FreeBSD.

Firmware 7.61 was released in August last year, while the previous hack took place back in 2021 on firmware 4.51. Thus, games will soon be available to pirates on Playstation until the middle to end of last year.

FreeBSD developers only learned about the vulnerability now, but Sony engineers fixed it a year ago. It is believed that Sony accidentally fixed the vulnerability as part of one of the updates.