Well they did it.

Recentally I made a post about viruses on your PSP. Well it finally happened.

Almost all PlayStation Portable users are looking to modify their gaming system so it can run software that has not been approved by Sony have found that they themselves running nothing at all. Ever again. According to researchers at security vendor Symantec a new Trojan horse program, called, Trojan.PSPBrick, has begun circulating on online gaming sites. Once installed, the software will delete important system files in version 2.0 of the PlayStation Portable’s firmware, turning the hand-held games into inoperable machines, called “bricks” by gamers.

The Trojan is promoted as a nifty software hack that can be used to disable the PlayStation Portable’s software protection mechanism (allowing one to install non-Sony programs), said Dean Turner, senior manager with Symantec’s Security Response team. “Once a user installs that Trojan, it deletes four critical files from the machine and a message comes up that says, ‘Your PSP 2.0 is hacked, please reboot.’”

But without the system files, however, the PlayStations cannot be restarted, he said.

Symantec rates the attack a Category 1, which is its least serious rating. The company has heard of no confirmed cases of PlayStation Portables being taken down with the software, yet. Symantec has posted details of the threat, and Sony is also providing information on the Trojan horse.

Symantec states that now with all the mass downloading of new PSP programs this attack is probably not going to be the last on the PSP.

Thanks to PCWorld and Symantec for the details