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October 6, 2005
Trojan virus targeting Sony PlayStation Portables




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By KATU Web Staff
PORTLAND, Ore. - A Trojan virus is targeting the Sony PlayStation Portable, trying to take advantage of those who try to "hack" the system so they can run their own games.

The virus, which may be the first for the PSP, has been identified by Symantec as the Trojan.PSPBrick.

According to Symantec's Web site, the Trojan.PSPBrick arrives as an archive file named EXPLOIT 2G PSP Team V1.RAR, which consists of the files overflow.tif and h.bin. The user is then instructed to file the h.bin in the root of a USB device and overflow.tif in the folder /PSP/PHOTO/.

In non-technical terms, basically what the virus does is fool people into believing they are downloading a "hack" when they are really downloading the Trojan virus.

The virus then deletes critical files off the PSP, which makes the user unable to restart the device.

For complete information on the Trojan virus, just head to Symantec's Web site.

http://www.katu.com/consumernews/story.asp?ID=80190

also:
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051006.gtpstrojanoct6/BNStory/AtPlay/

and:
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/10/first_psp_virus.html

WHOA..

 

[skip]

people are dicks.

 

[radioheadrule83]

Sony?

Is this their doing?
Is this a scare story?

* eyes everyone with suspicion*

 

[Tenacious-V]

Sony released it!!!!!!!

 

[impirius]

Nintendo has been very busy this week

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

The PSP isn't already a brick?

 

[Wario64]

Nintendo has been very busy this week

:lol



isnt this just that fake downgrader that was releaesed a while ago?

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

people are dicks.

Yes, yes they are.

 

[aoi tsuki]

overflow.tif? Somebody's not even trying.

 

[TranceVibrator]

overflow.tif is part of the v2 firmware exploit to run homebrew.

 

[GDGF]

Nintendo has been very busy this week

:lol

 

[Gek54]

:lol



isnt this just that fake downgrader that was releaesed a while ago?

It was fake????

 

[Wario64]

It was fake????

well some idiot group released a downgrader that bricked your PSP instead of actually downgrading to 1.5. it sounds just like this trojan

 

[silver]

Nintendo has been very busy this week

:lol :lol

 

[sonycowboy]

Somehow I don't feel too sorry for these folks. And I'm betting the warranty doesn't cover trying to hack your PSP.

 

[Apenheul]

Somehow I don't feel too sorry for these folks. And I'm betting the warranty doesn't cover trying to hack your PSP.

I fully agree, you're not exactly doing Sony a favor when downgrading. But honestly I think it's partly the gamessites' fault. They almost make me feel like running emulators is one of the features the hardware was designed for, there's that much news about it. It's probably gone a bit out of hand.

 

[Xellotah]

Nintendo has been very busy this week

:lol

Somehow I don't feel too sorry for these folks. And I'm betting the warranty doesn't cover trying to hack your PSP.

Does this trojan just affect hackers.... bearing in mind the PSP is internet enabled, is it possible for trojans to affect "ordinary" users?

 

[sc0la]

I like how symantec is calling it the Trojan.PSPbrick :lol

 

[Ponn]

:lol




Does this trojan just affect hackers.... bearing in mind the PSP is internet enabled, is it possible for trojans to affect "ordinary" users?

Well since you have to download and install on your memory card, yea mainly hackers. Just another reason i'm glad I moved on from that scene.

 

[n-off]

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.pspbrick.html