Security researchers announced a successful exploit of the PlayStation 5 firmware. White hat hackers managed to compromise version 7.61 (from 2023) — helped by a vulnerability discovered in FreeBSD.
Remarkably, although specialists only learned about the vulnerability recently, Sony itself patched it a year ago (in a later version). It has been suggested that this might have happened simply “by accident,” while PlayStation engineers were working on other firmware-related matters.
The assumption is that if Sony had indeed discovered this issue, they would have reported it to the FreeBSD developers so they could fix it.
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