Hacking Discussion About payloads - Get them from safe sources!

[Draxzelex]

Sorry if this question is annoying, but what malware payload are you all talking about?

Someone made a thread that supposedly had a copy of the cracked SX OS but instead its designed to brick your Switch.

 

[TheMCNerd2017]

Someone made a thread that supposedly had a copy of the cracked SX OS but instead its designed to brick your Switch.

Yep, knew that something like that was going to happen sooner or later. Wonder how exactly the payload would brick consoles it was ran on, considering that you get stuck on the Nintendo Switch screen after the payload is ran.

 

[Draxzelex]

Yep, knew that something like that was going to happen sooner or later. Wonder how exactly the payload would brick consoles it was ran on, considering that you get stuck on the Nintendo Switch screen after the payload is ran.

That type of information is being indirectly gathered in this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/anybody-bricked-with-the-fake-sx-payload.512285/

 

[TheMCNerd2017]

That type of information is being indirectly gathered in this thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/anybody-bricked-with-the-fake-sx-payload.512285/

OK, thanks for telling me.

 

[pandavova]

im only gonna break, break, your, break, break your SWITCH

 

[CTCaer]

Even if that is the case, I can always recover at least.

you can't always recover.
It's why I still have not committed the emmc special command for force erase. Change this a little bit, run it and you have to buy a new emmc.

And there are countless other ways to completely brick a switch.

So..

 

[V-Temp]

People will be emboldened to do it more now too, because of how 'successful the lulz' were with this run. With news of patched units out there too, its even more prime troll target material to break people's unpatched units.

Code is trivial to acquire, and someone might release even worse brickcode to build off of this.

 

[Pluupy]

Oh boy here comes the Streisand effect.

 

[V-Temp]

Oh boy here comes the Streisand effect.

Soon everything will be brickcode with brickcode hidden in it.

 

[Boot_8046]

This should be stickied imo.

 

[Draxzelex]

This should be stickied imo.

Its a well-known fact that pinned threads are invisible to noobs and new users

 

[Boot_8046]

Its a well-known fact that pinned threads are invisible to noobs and new users

I agree on that but because this thread isn't stickied it's likely to be buried by other threads soon, so we should bump it consistently.

 

[Slimmmmmm]

you can't always recover.
It's why I still have not committed the emmc special command for force erase. Change this a little bit, run it and you have to buy a new emmc.

And there are countless other ways to completely brick a switch.

So..

Yeah there are a lot of things people can do to make bad code.

Another example is a fuse burner code so to speak and even worse things.

Always get payloads from reliable sources.
Whoever started this is a total dick :/

 

[Draxzelex]

I agree on that but because this thread isn't stickied it's likely to be buried by other threads soon, so we should bump it consistently.

Haha, well I'll be definitely keeping it on my Watched Threads list. On a serious side note, since a moderator made this thread, they also have the power to sticky it so enough people ask it to happen, they can do it themselves.

 

[Slimmmmmm]

Sticky this please

 

[Boot_8046]

Haha, well I'll be definitely keeping it on my Watched Threads list. On a serious side note, since a moderator made this thread, they also have the power to sticky it so enough people ask it to happen, they can do it themselves.

My thought exactly!

 

[ByteBite]

This should be a sticky. Preferably with bright flashing colors and blinking images. Now that the code is out in the wild...

 

[Earth97]

So was the crack thrown among legit code? Or no sigpatches yet?

 

[APartOfMe]

Hasn't the brick code been freely available for a long time now? I'm surprised it took someone this long to make a malicious file

 

[SomeGamer]

Hasn't the brick code been freely available for a long time now? I'm surprised it took someone this long to make a malicious file

They aren't the same.