PlayStation 3 Gets Hacked With Its Own Controller

The PlayStation 3 jailbreaking and hacking wars continue these days, with coders and crackers porting technologies like the PSGroove or PSFreedom exploits to all sorts of devices and disabling the copy protection for the PlayStation 3.

Now, after seeing Sony's console get hacked with everything from the traditional USB sticks to HTC phones, iPhone or iPod Touch devices, and even regular calculators, a new video has appeared on the web, showcasing a PS3 getting hacked using its own controller, a DualShock 3.

While the report is a bit shaky, at least in terms of actual information being offered by the exploit, the video attached below does show a PS3 getting hacked using nothing but a seemingly standard looking DualShock 3 controller with SIXAXIS functionality.

It's pretty safe to say that a bit of modding must be done to the controller in order to be able to run the PSGroove exploit and actually jailbreak the console, but at least the proof of concept is out there.

Don't forget though that the 3.41 firmware version is required, in order to hack your console, as previous versions, not to mention newer ones like the 3.42 or 3.50 have blocked the vulnerability.

The Playstation 3 hacking saga began a few months ago, with a few modders demonstrating that, through the use of a modified USB stick, the PS3 was now able to back up games and run the actual back ups off its own hard disk or an external hard drive.

As you can imagine, that was soon used by people to play pirated games downloaded from the web or from torrent sites, fact which prompted Sony to take action against the exploit.

The loophole that allow the PS3 to be hacked was patched through two firmware updates, but rest assured that hackers are working on cracking Sony's protection once more, and will use any device they have available to do so, as demonstrated by the video below.

See a PlayStation 3 get hacked using its own DualShock 3 controller.