N-gated Hacker NewsMar 3, 2025
🎮💻 Oh, the joys of hacking an Xbox 360, where the only thing more elusive than a hypervisor is the actual content of this article! 🚫🔒 Apparently, #ModSecurity decided that some #vaporware text about a "Bad Update Exploit" was just too spicy for our fragile eyes. 🙈
https://icode4.coffee/?p=1081 #XboxHacking #BadUpdateExploit #GamingNews #HackerNews #ngated
Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit

Finding and exploiting bugs in the Xbox 360 hypervisor to create the "Bad Update" exploit.

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Ecologia DigitalApr 17, 2018

The story about a group of teens who went way too far #XboxHacking

"When #Pokora started picking apart the console’s software a decade earlier, it had seemed like harmless fun.

For 8 months he’d been under sealed indictment for conspiring to steal as much as $1 billion worth of #intellectualproperty, and federal prosecutors were intent on making him the first foreign #hacker to be convicted for the theft of American #tradesecrets."

https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-underground-videogame-hackers/ https://ecodigital.social/media/zbgj0MJfByfaKvX90Fw

The Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Xbox Empire—And Went Too Far

Among those involved in David Pokora's so-called Xbox Underground, one would become an informant, one would become a fugitive, and one would end up dead.

WIRED