First PSP Trojan Reported

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Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:03PM
from the watch-what-you-click dept.

Evangelion writes "PSP hackers beware! According to 1up.com today, Symantec has identified the first PSP Trojan in the wild. Known as Trojan.PSPBrick, it turns the PSP into, well, a brick. With buttons. Users have to download and install it themselves, and as a result it effectively breaks the PSP."

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PSafeP (Score:2, Interesting)

by goodenoughnickname (874664) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:37PM (#13733393)

There is a program called PSafeP [qj.net] for Windows that claims to check EBOOT files for suspicious code. I have yet to verify its validity (my PSP is still collecting dust). Has anyone here checked it out?

(Sorry for linking to PSPUpdates, but it's the only place I've seen this.)

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Re:Social Engineering (Score:4, Interesting)

by SpottedKuh (855161) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:56PM (#13733539)

Not sure what that program's supposed to do that's so bad.

Bloody hell, I must have mistyped something in my example program. Let me try running it and see what happe...
[CARRIER LOST]

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Thats what you get when you use firmware (Score:2, Interesting)

by diamondmagic (877411) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @03:56PM (#13733540) Homepage

They COULD have manufactured the firmware updater in the ROM, not flash/RAM/wherever. But no!

If there were a virus like this for the DS, it could totally spread like a virus. Imagine:
"Oh, COOL! I thought [game] wasn't out yet! I'll download it right away!"

Now imagine coupling this with some sort of wireless buffer-overflow exploit (that does not exist, as of yet). The horror!

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Re:Thats what you get when you use firmware (Score:3, Interesting)

by FLAGGR (800770) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @04:18PM (#13733711)

Bo. The first x (where x is some number) of bytes on the DS is write protected, and you have to manually short a connection to overwrite it.

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Sony strikes back (Score:3, Interesting)

by hal2814 (725639) writes: on Thursday October 06, 2005 @04:29PM (#13733815)

Wonder who wrote this trojan? Could it be a certain company that doesn't want you loading unauthorized software?

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PSafeP (Score:2, Interesting)

Re:Social Engineering (Score:4, Interesting)

Thats what you get when you use firmware (Score:2, Interesting)

Re:Thats what you get when you use firmware (Score:3, Interesting)

Sony strikes back (Score:3, Interesting)

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