BitLeaker is a new tool for extracting the VMK and mounting a BitLocker-locked partition. BitLeaker uses the TPM vulnerability, CVE-2018-6622 for a discrete TPM and related vulnerability for a firmware TPM. They are related to the S3 sleeping state of Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) and can reset the TPMs. If you want the detailed information about CVE-2018-6622 and a vulnerability checking tool, please read our USENIX paper, A Bad Dream: Subverting Trusted Platform Module While You Are Sleeping and Black Hat Asia presentation, Finally, I Can Sleep Tonight: Catching Sleep Mode Vulnerabilities of the TPM with Napper.
Tag: Bitlocker
An ice-cold Boot to break BitLocker
An ice-cold Boot to break BitLocker
By Olle Segerdahl & Pasi Saarinen
A decade ago, academic researchers demonstrated how computer memory remanence could be used to defeat popular disk encryption systems. Not much has happened since, and most seem to believe that these attacks are too impractical for real world use. Even Microsoft have even started to play down the threat of memory remanence attacks against BitLocker, using words such as “they are not possible using published techniques”. We will publish techniques that allow recovery of BitLocker encryption keys from RAM on most, if not all, currently available devices. While BitLocker is called out in the title, the same attacks are also valid against other platforms and operating systems.
Olle is a veteran of the IT-security industry, having worked with both “breaking” and “building” security solutions for almost 20 years. During that time, he has worked on securing classified systems, critical infrastructure and cryptographic products as well as building software whitelisting solutions used by industrial robots and medical equipment. He is currently the Swedish Principal Security Consultant with F-Secure’s technical security consulting practice.
Pasi is an experienced security researcher with a background in both software and network security. In previous employment he has worked on a modern framework for white-box fuzz testing of binaries and security standardization of the 5G mobile network. While he has a very Finnish name, he plays for team Sweden in F-Secure’s technical security consulting practice.
Windows 10 new preboot security features
There’s a few new preboot-related features in recent builds of Microsoft Windows, excerpt of some of them below.
New features in Windows 10, version 1511:
* Credential Guard: Enable Credential Guard without UEFI lock. You can enable Credential Guard by using the registry. This allows you to disable Credential Guard remotely. However, we recommend that Credential Guard is enabled with UEFI lock. You can configure this by using Group Policy.
* Bitlocker: DMA port protection. You can use the DataProtection/AllowDirectMemoryAccess MDM policy to block DMA ports when the device is starting up. Also, when a device is locked, all unused DMA ports are turned off, but any devices that are already plugged into a DMA port will continue to work. When the device is unlocked, all DMA ports are turned back on.
* Bitlocker: New Group Policy for configuring pre-boot recovery. You can now configure the pre-boot recovery message and recover URL that is shown on the pre-boot recovery screen. For more info, see the Configure pre-boot recovery message and URL section in “BitLocker Group Policy settings.”
* New BCD events: Event ID 4826 has been added to track the following changes to the Boot Configuration Database (BCD): DEP/NEX settings, Test signing, PCAT SB simulation, Debug, Boot debug, Integrity Services, Disable Winload debugging menu
* New PNP events: Event ID 6416 has been added to track when an external device is detected through Plug and Play. One important scenario is if an external device that contains malware is inserted into a high-value machine that doesn’t expect this type of action, such as a domain controller.
* TPM: Key Storage Providers (KSPs) and srvcrypt support elliptical curve cryptography (ECC).
* TPM: The following sections describe the new and changed functionality in the TPM for Windows 10: Device health attestation, Microsoft Passport support, Device Guard support, Credential Guard support […]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-new-windows-10-version-1507-and-1511
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-info
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