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MSI BREACH LEAKS INTEL BOOTGUARD & OEM IMAGE SIGNING KEYS, COMPROMISES SECURITY
OF OVER 200 DEVICES & MAJOR VENDORS

Hassan Mujtaba • May 6, 2023 08:00 AM EDT
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A recent breach in MSI's servers exposed Intel's BootGuard keys and has now put
the security of various devices at risk.


MAJOR MSI BREACH AFFECTS THE SECURITY OF VARIOUS INTEL DEVICES

Update: Inte has provided us with the following statement regarding the breach:

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> "It should be noted that Intel BootGuard OEM keys are generated by the system
> manufacturer, and these are not Intel signing keys.”

Last month, a hacker group by the name of Money Message revealed that they had
breached MSI's servers and stolen 1.5 TBs of data from the company's servers
including source code amongst a list of various files that are important to the
integrity of the company. The group asked MSI to pay $4.0 million in ransom to
avert them from releasing the files to the public but MSI refused the payment.

This action promoted the group to release the files on public servers this
Thursday and based on an investigation done by BINARLY, the files include Intel
BootGuard keys from MSI which not only affects MSI itself but also other major
vendors including Intel, Lenovo, Supermicron & many others.





The leaked files contain signing keys for a total of over 200 MSI products which
can be used to access the firmware of these devices. These include a total of 57
devices whose Firmware Image Signing Keys have leaked out and 116 devices whose
Intel BootGuard Keys have leaked.



Why these keys are so important is because they are used to flag certain
software that isn't verified as untrusted and "potentially malicious", says
PCMAG. These keys can be used to tag malicious software with malware as trusted
and handed over to the system which ends up compromising its security.

> “The signing keys for fw [firmware] image allow an attacker to craft malicious
> firmware updates and it can be delivered through normal BIOS update processes
> with MSI update tools,” Binarly CEO Alex Matrosov tells PCMag.

MSI replied to its customers to avoid downloading UEFI/BIOS Firmware from any
place except its own official websites where the proper version will be
available without any fear of being compromised. Furthermore, since these files
have been made public over the last couple of days, it is very likely a number
of UEFI/BIOS firmware are already floating around various sections of the web
with malicious code.





According to Alex Matrosov, the CEO of BINARLY, the leak is confirmed to include
Intel's private keys for OEM devices. Furthermore, the BootGuard may not be as
effective on devices based on 11th-Gen Tiger Lake, 12th-Gen Alder Lake, and
13th-Gen Raptor Lake platforms. The leak also affects all OEM signing-based
mechanisms within CSME (Converged Security and Management Engine) as stated by
Alex. Intel and its partners who are affected by this leak have to to comment on
how they plan on tackling this major security flaw that's occured through this
breach.

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