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Patrick Toomey, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, wouldn't comment on whether the filing indicated a confirmation of the CIA documents or not, but told Motherboard in an email, 'What's troubling in this case and others is that the government seems to want to have it both ways. It refuses to officially confirm the authenticity of documents published in the press, but it then relies on the fact that the documents are classified in order to bar defendants and others from relying on these publicly available materials in court.' Assange said tech companies have asked for more details about CIA hacking methods since Wikileaks released 8,761 apparently real documents on Tuesday that exposed the power of the agency's hacking operations.
The documents, allegedly part one in a series of document dumps to come, said the CIA has long been in a bureaucratic battle with the NSA. Tired of being beholden to NSA intelligence, the CIA built up its own hugely powerful hacking unit, which has since found ways around encrypted chat apps such as Signal and WhatsApp, devised ways to turn smart TVs into covert microphones, and has tried to figure out how to hack cars. More about Companies, Tech, Hacking, Julian Assange, and Wikileaks.
After CIA leak, Intel Security releases CHIPSEC, a detection tool for EFI rootkits that detect rogue binaries inside the computer firmware. A few days ago, to fix the zero-day flaws in that impacted their products and services.
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The organization is sharing information on the hacking tools included in the Vault7 dump with them and IT vendors are already working to solve the problems. In response to the, Intel Security has released a tool that allows users to check if the firmware of their computers has been modified and contains unauthorized code. Digging the CIA archive the experts discovered that the hackers of the Agency have developed EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) rootkits for Apple’s Macbooks. Developers at the CIA Embedded Development Branch (EDB) group have designed an OS X “implant” called that implements a kernel code injection mechanism in a module dubbed Bokor and uses an EFI persistence module called Dark Matter.
The (Unified EFI) replaces the BIOS in modern computers, it is the low-level firmware that runs just before the operating system during the bootstrap process to initialize the computer. It is composed of a huge number “applications” that implements different features in modern computers. A malware running in a stealth way in the EFI is able to bypass any security mechanism and inject malicious code into the OS kernel, it also alsogain persistence on the infected machine, allowing the rootkits to survive reboots, system updates and even re-installations of the OS. Reading the documents it is possible to discover another project developed by the CIA EDB code-named QuarkMatter that is a “Mac OS X EFI implant, which uses an EFI driver stored on the EFI system partition to provide persistence to an arbitrary kernel implant.” Now the Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security has designed a new module for its existing CHIPSEC open-source framework that is able to detect malicious EFI binaries. “CHIPSEC is a framework for analyzing the security of PC platforms including hardware, system firmware (BIOS/UEFI), and platform components. It includes a security test suite, tools for accessing various low-level interfaces, and forensic capabilities.” reads the description of the framework.”It can be run on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and UEFI shell. Instructions for installing and using CHIPSEC can be found in the manual (chipsec -manual.
Pdf).” is a collection of command-line tools that use low-level interfaces to analyze a system’s hardware, firmware, and platform components.The new CHIPSEC module allows the user to take a clean EFI image from the manufacturer, extract its contents and build a whitelist of the files it contains. The CHIPSEC allow users to compare the above list against the list of binaries that compose the system’s current EFI or against an EFI image previously extracted from a system. Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at 'Cyber Defense Magazine', Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog 'Security Affairs' recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the 'The Hacker News' team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines.
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