PS4 users should be wary of rest mode due to a new exploit that takes advantage of the PS4 during this stateA hacker by the name of Volodymyr Pikhur has presented an exploit which he has been sitting on for almost 2 years now. The exploit was presented at the Recon Brussels hacking conference a couple of days ago. Just a couple days ago Pikhur released the slides and a demo video of the exploit in action. According to the slides posted Pikhur has had the exploit working for 2 years but decided to finally disclose it since Sony doesn't have a bug bounty.You can check out the video below to see the exploit in action, Pikhur seems to be running an FTP server alongside other things to gain access to the PS4 in rest mode.It appears that Pikhur is using a kernel exploit which is not publicly known. He also is leveraging a vulnerability in sys_kldload. Looking at the presentation and the video, there is definitely enough information provided for people with bad intentions to take th...
