The Xbox 360 Hypervisor Exploit is Here! Bad Update Overview & Demonstration - ModChat 131

At last the long awaited Xbox 360 Hypervisor exploit shown by Grimdoomer has arrived in the form of Bad Update! This means that unsigned code can be run on any Xbox 360 up to Kernel/Dashboard 17559 using only a USB drive and the NTSC version of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. This does not require any other modifications to be done to the hardware and can be performed on an unopened and unmodified console, making this the first software-only exploit available for the latest system software version! As this episode will only be focused on Bad Update, we walk through where this started from Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy, read through a couple of blog posts Grimdoomer made leading up to the release, and of course we set up and try Bad Update for ourselves before giving some final thoughts.

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Timestamps!

0:00 - Intro
2:46 - A Word on Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
5:32 - Part 1: What's Up with the Hypervisor?
16:30 - Are Compilers to Blame?
20:05 - Part 2: Bad Update!
37:01 - Frequently Asked Questions
40:24 - Bad Update Time!
43:46 - Dashboard Update
48:14 - Setting Up Bad Update
51:25 - Running Bad Update
57:53 - Final Thoughts

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Sources Cited (All Used With Fair Use In Mind)

Bad Update:
https://github.com/grimdoomer/Xbox360BadUpdate

Hypervisor Write-Up Part 1:
https://icode4.coffee/?p=1047

Hypervisor Write-Up Part 2:
https://icode4.coffee/?p=1081

Dashboard Update 17559:
https://digiex.net/threads/xbox-360-dashboard-system-update-2-0-17559-0-download-with-avatars.16047/

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