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IT Home reported on October 27 that there have recently been quite a few attempts to hack the PS5. Thanks to generative AI, development of PC emulators for PS5 games has progressed rapidly. Now a hacker has also used AI to find a PS5 vulnerability and received a substantial reward through Sony's security reporting program.
According to IGN, Sony paid the reward after the vulnerability was submitted through its security disclosure channel. The PS5 modding enthusiast received $50,000 (IT Home note: approximately 334,000 yuan at the current exchange rate) for discovering and reporting a high-severity vulnerability that could have been used to run Linux on the PS5.
What makes this case especially unusual is that the hacker who received the $50,000 reward (approximately 334,000 yuan at the current exchange rate), Jordy, used AI to find the vulnerability. Before him, another security engineer had already discovered it and had been researching how to deploy Linux on PS5 consoles running firmware versions 13.60 through 14.0.
Many players had hoped to dual-boot Linux on the console while still being able to play GTA 6 legally when it launches next month. After Sony patched the security vulnerability, that route was no longer viable.
Jordy said that if he had not reported the vulnerability, someone else would have found it sooner or later, and he believes anyone could do so with the help of AI. He chose to claim the bounty because his mother is terminally ill and urgently needs money.