Active Management Technology

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2018
Security issue in Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) allows to gain full remote access to corporate devices

Security researchers from F-Secure have discovered a new issue in Intel’s Advanced Management Technology (AMT) implementation that can be exploited by remote attackers to access most of the corporate laptops. Intel is the middle of a tempest, after the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre attacks, security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in Intel’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2017
Platinum hackers leverages Intel Active Management tools to bypass Windows firewall

The PLATINUM hacker group has developed a system leveraging Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) to bypass the Windows firewall. Microsoft is warning users of a new attack that leverage Intel’s Active Management Technology to evade firewalls and other endpoint-based network monitoring. The technique has been already used by a threat actor in Southeast Asia dubbed […]