Intern
Secure Software Systems Group

Publications

Publications of Chair of Software Systems Group

2024[ to top ]
  • Cloud-Based Machine Learning Models as Covert Communication Channels. Torsten, Krauß; Jasper, Stang; Alexandra, Dmitrienko; in To appear in the 19th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2024) (2024).
  • Automatic Adversarial Adaption for Stealthy Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning. Krauß, Torsten; König, Jan; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Kanzow, Christian; in the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (2024).
  • DNNShield: Embedding Identifiers for Deep Neural Network Ownership Verification. Jasper, Stang; Torsten, Krauß; Alexandra, Dmitrienko; in arXiv:2403.06581 (2024).
  • ClearStamp: A Human-Visible and Robust Model-Ownership Proof based on Transposed Model Training. Torsten, Krauß; Jasper, Stang; Alexandra, Dmitrienko; in To Appear in the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2024) (2024).
  • MirageFlow: A New Bandwidth Inflation Attack on Tor. Sendner, Christoph; Stang, Jasper; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Wijewickrama, Raveen; Jadliwala, Murtuza; in the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (2024).
  • FreqFed: A Frequency Analysis-Based Approach for Mitigating Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning. Fereidooni, Hossein; Pegoraro, Alessandro; Rieger, Phillip; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; in the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (2024).
  • CrowdGuard: Federated Backdoor Detection in Federated Learning. Rieger, Phillip; Krauß, Torsten; Miettinen, Markus; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; in the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (2024).
2023[ to top ]
  • AuthentiSense: A Scalable Behavioral Biometrics Authentication Scheme using Few-Shot Learning for Mobile Platforms. Fereidooni, Hossein; König, Jan; Rieger, Philipp; Chilese, Markus; Finke, Moritz; Goekbakan, Bora; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; in Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (2023).
  • G-Scan: Graph Neural Networks for Line-Level Vulnerability Identification in Smart Contracts. Sendner, Christoph; Zhang, Ruisi; Hefter, Alexander; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Koushanfar, Farinaz; in arXiv:2307.08549 (2023).
  • Smarter Contracts: Detecting Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts with Deep Transfer Learning. Sendner, Christoph; Chen, Huili; Fereidooni, Hossein; Petzi, Lukas; König, Jan; Stang, Jasper; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; Koushanfar, Farinaz; in To appear at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (2023).
  • CROSSCON: Interoperable IoT Security Stack - The RISC-V Opportunity. Pinto, Sandro; Breskvar, Matjaz; Gomes, Tiago; Koshutanski, Hristo; Pasic, Aljosa; Krol, Piotr; Amri, Emna; Puron, David; Hornak, Zoltan; Rovieri, Marco; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; Crispo, Bruno; in RISC-V Summit Europe, Barcelona (2023).
  • TorMult: Introducing a Novel Tor Bandwidth Inflation Attack. Sendner, Christoph; Stang, Jasper; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Wijewickrama, Raveen; Jadliwala, Murtuza; in ArXiv | arXiv.2307.08550 (2023).
  • Metadata-based Malware Detection on Android using Machine Learning. Hefter, Alexander; Sendner, Christoph; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; in ArXiv | arXiv.2307.08547 (2023).
  • ClearMark: Intuitive and Robust Model Watermarking via Transposed Model Training. Krauß, Torsten; Stang, Jasper; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; in ArXiv | arXiv:2310.16453v1 (2023).
  • Vulnerability Scanners for Ethereum Smart Contracts: A Large-Scale Study. Sendner, Christoph; Petzi, Lukas; Stang, Jasper; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; in arXiv:2312.16533 (2023).
  • Security of NVMe Offloaded Data in Large-Scale Machine Learning. Krauß, Torsten; Raphael, Götz; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; in European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) (2023).
  • Avoid Adversarial Adaption in Federated Learning by Multi-Metric Investigations. Krauß, Torsten; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; in ArXiv | arXiv.2306.03600 (2023).
  • MESAS: Poisoning Defense for Federated Learning Resilient against Adaptive Attackers. Torsten, Krauß; Alexandra, Dmitrienko; in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (2023).
  • Adversarial Training in Federated Learning using Constrained Optimization Methods. König, Jan; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2023, May).
2022[ to top ]
  • Ransomware Detection in Databases through Dynamic Analysis of Query Sequences. Sendner, Christoph; Iffländer, Lukas; Schindler, Sebastian; Jobst, Michael; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Kounev, Samuel; in IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) (2022).
  • Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers: Low-cost Attacks, Quantitative Analyses, and Efficient Mitigations. Hagen, Christoph; Weinert, Christian; Sendner, Christoph; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Schneider, Thomas; in Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2022/875 (2022). (2022/875)
  • FedCRI: Federated Mobile Cyber-Risk Intelligence. Fereidooni, Hossein; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Madlener, Felix; Rieger, Phillip; Miettinen, Markus; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; in The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (2022).
  • Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers: Low-cost Attacks, Quantitative Analyses, and Efficient Mitigations. Hagen, Christoph; Weinert, Christian; Sendner, Christoph; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Schneider, Thomas; in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS) (2022).
  • SCRAPS: Scalable Collective Remote Attestation for Pub-Sub IoT Networks with Untrusted Proxy Verifier Petzi, Lukas; Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Tsudik, Gene; Prantl, Thomas; Kounev, Samuel; (2022). (Vol. USENIX Security ’22)
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  • Close the Gate: Detecting Backdoored Models in Federated Learning based on Client-Side Deep Layer Output Analysis. Rieger, Phillip; Krauß, Torsten; Miettinen, Markus; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; in ArXiv | arXiv:2210.07714 (2022).
  • An Experience Report on the Suitability of a Distributed Group Encryption Scheme for an IoT Use Case. Prantl, Thomas; Engel, Simon; Bauer, Andre; Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine; Herrnleben, Stefan; Iffländer, Lukas; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Kounev, Samuel; in IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) (2022).
  • A Survey on Secure Group Communication Schemes with Focus on IoT Communication. Prantl, Thomas; Zeck, Timo; Bauer, André; Ten, Peter; Prantl, Dominik; Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine; Iffländer, Lukas; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Krupitzer, Christian; Kounev, Samuel; in IEEE Access (2022).
  • Towards a Cryptography Benchmark: A View on Attribute Based Encryption Schemes. Prantl, Thomas; Zeck, Timo; Iffländer, Lukas; Beierlieb, Lukas; Dmitrenko, Alexandra; Krupitzer, Christian; Kounev, Samuel; in 2022 5th Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things (CIoT) (2022).
  • SCRAPS: Scalable Collective Remote Attestation for Pub-Sub IoT Networks with Untrusted Proxy Verifier. Petzi, Lukas; Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Tsudik, Gene; Prantl, Thomas; Kounev, Samuel; in USENIX Security (2022).
  • Digital contact Tracing solutions: Promises, Pitfalls and Challenges. Thien Duc, Nguyen; Markus, Miettinen; Alexandra, Dmitrienko; Ahmad-Reza, Sadeghi; Ivan, Visconti; in ArXiv I arXiv 2202.06698v2 (October 2022) (2022).
  • Digital Contact Tracing Solutions: Promises, Pitfalls and Challenges. Thien Duc, Nguyen; Markus, Miettinen; Alexandra, Dmitrienko; Ahmad-Reza, Sadeghi; Ivan, Visconti; in Cryptology ePrint Archive (2022).
  • Digital Contact Tracing Solutions: Promises, Pitfalls and Challenges. Thien Duc, Nguyen; Markus, Miettinen; Alexandra, Dmitrienko; Ahmad-Reza, Sadeghi; Ivan, Visconti; in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (2022).
2021[ to top ]
  • Performance Evaluation for a Post-Quantum Public-Key Cryptosystem. Prantl, Thomas; Prantl, Dominik; Beierlieb, Lukas; Iffländer, Lukas; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Krupitzer, Christian; Kounev, Samuel; in IEEE 40th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) (2021).
  • Increasing Security in Satellite Networks. Schilling, Klaus; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; in 72nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC) (2021).
  • Sound Smart Contract Security Testing with Just One Tool. Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Chen, Huili; Fereidooni, Hossein; Sendner, Christoph; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; Koushanfar, Farinaz; in CyberSec&AI 2021 (2021).
  • RIP StrandHogg: A Practical StrandHogg Attack Detection Method on Android. Stang, Jasper; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Roth, Sascha; in 14th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) (2021).
  • Benchmarking of Pre- and Post-Quantum Group Encryption Schemes with Focus on IoT. Prantl, Thomas; Prantl, Dominik; Bauer, André; Iffländer, Lukas; Dmitrenko, Alexandra; Krupitzer, Christian; Kounev, Samuel; in IEEE 40th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) (2021).
  • All the Numbers are US: Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers. Hagen, Christoph; Weinert, Christian; Sendner, Christoph; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Schneider, Thomas; in Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) (2021).
  • Vision: Challenges & Opportunities. Annaaram, Murali; Asokan, N.; Atli, Buse Gül; Avestimeh, Salman; Brasser, Ferdinand; Cammarota, Rosario; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Dziedzic, Adam; Given-Wilson, Thomas; Gunn, Lachlan J.; Kerschbaum, Florian; Koushanfar, Farinaz; Legay, Axel; Miettinen, Markus; Nguyen, Thien Duc; Papernot, Nicolas; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; Schunter, Matthias; Shokri, Reza; Smith, Virginia; in Vision Paper of the Private AI Collaborative Research Institute (2021).
  • ESCORT: Ethereum Smart COntRacTs Vulnerability Detection using Deep Neural Network and Transfer Learning. Lutz, Oliver; Chen, Huili; Fereidooni, Hossein; Sendner, Christoph; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Sadeghi, Ahmad Reza; Koushanfar, Farinaz; in ArXiv | arXiv:2103.12607v1 (2021).
  • Towards a Group Encryption Scheme Benchmark: A View on Centralized Schemes with focus on IoT. Prantl, Thomas; Ten, Peter; Iffländer, Lukas; Herrnleben, Stefan; Dmitrenko, Alexandra; Kounev, Samuel; Krupitzer, Christian; in ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (2021).
  • Intrusion Detection Using Machine Learning in Databases. Schindler, Sebastian; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2021, April).
  • Security Analysis of UniNow App. Zimmermann, Keven; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2021, June).
  • Remote Attestation for IoT with Smart Verifier. Petzi, Lukas; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2021, January).
2020[ to top ]
  • Understanding UI attacks on Android. Jasper, Stang; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2020, December).
  • Evaluating the Performance of a State-Of-The-Art Group-oriented Encryption Scheme for Dynamic Groups in an IoT Scenario. Prantl, Thomas; Ten, Peter; Iffländer, Lukas; Dmitrenko, Alexandra; Kounev, Samuel; Krupitzer, Christian; in IEEE 28th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) (2020).
    Acceptance Rate: 27%
  • Detection of Software Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts using Deep Learning. Lutz, Oliver; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2020, October).
  • All the Numbers are US: Large-scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers. Hagen, Christoph; Weinert, Christian; Sendner, Christoph; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Schneider, Thomas; in Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2020/1119 (2020).
  • LegIoT: Ledgered Trust Management Platform for IoT. Neureither, Jens; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Koisser, David; Brasser, Ferdinand; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; in European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) (2020).
  • Mind the GAP: Security & Privacy Risks of Contact Tracing Apps. Baumgärtner, Lars; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Freisleben, Bernd; Höchst, Jonas; Kühlberg, Joshua; Mezini, Mira; Miettinen, Markus; Muhamedagic, Anel; Nguyen, Thien Duc; Penning, Alvar; Pustelnik, Dermot Frederik; Roos, Filipp; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; Schwarz, Michael; Uhl, Christian; in TrustCom, Security Track (2020).
  • Contact Tracing by Giant Data Collectors: Opening Pandora’s Box of Threats to Privacy, Sovereignty and National Security. Boutet, Antoine; Castelluccia, Claude; Cunche, Mathieu; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Iovino, Vincenzo; Miettinen, Markus; Nguyen, Thien Duc; Roca, Vincent; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; Vaudenay, Serge; Visconti, Ivan; Vuagnoux, Martin; (2020).
  • Evaluating the Privacy of Contact Discovery. Sendner, Christoph; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2020, July).
  • Evaluating the Performance of a State-of-the-Art Group-oriented Encryption Scheme for Dynamic Groups in an IoT Scenario. Prantl, Thomas; Ten, Peter; Iffländer, Lukas; Dmitrenko, Alexandra; Kounev, Samuel; Krupitzer, Christian; in IEEE 28th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) (2020).
    Acceptance Rate: 27%
  • Mind the GAP: Security & Privacy Risks of Contact Tracing Apps. Baumgärtner, Lars; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Freisleben, Bernd; Gruler, Alexander; Höchst, Jonas; Kühlberg, Joshua; Mezini, Mira; Mitev, Richard; Miettinen, Markus; Muhamedagic, Anel; Nguyen, Thien Duc; Penning, Alvar; Pustelnik, Dermot Frederik; Roos, Filipp; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; Schwarz, Michael; Uhl, Christian; in ArXiv | arXiv:2006.05914v2 (2020).
  • Strategies for the Security Assessment of IoT Devices by Certification Authorities. Finke, Moritz Anton; Thesis; University of Würzburg; University of Würzburg. (2020, May).
  • SIMPL: Secure IoT Management Platform. Prantl, Thomas; Ben Yahya, Ala Eddine; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Kounev, Samuel; Lipp, Fabian; Hock, David; Rathfelder, Christoph; Hofherr, Martin; in ITG Workshop on IT Security (ITSec) (2020).
  • Aggregatable Remote Attestation for IoT. Alistarov, Vasil; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2020, December).
  • Testbed for Security Testing of Smart Contracts. Denk, Lukas; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2020, November).
2019[ to top ]
  • DR.SGX: Automated and Adjustable Side-Channel Protection for SGX using Data Location Randomization. Brasser, Ferdinand; Capkun, Srdjan; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Frassetto, Tommaso; Kostiainen, Kari; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; in Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) (2019).
  • Implementation and Evaluation of a Group Encryption Scheme. Ten, Peter; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2019, December).
  • Hands off my Database: Ransomware Detection in Databases through Dynamic Analysis of Query Sequences. Iffländer, Lukas; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Hagen, Christoph; Jobst, Michael; Kounev, Samuel; in ArXiv | arXiv:1907.06775v1 (2019).
2018[ to top ]
  • POSTER: Efficient and Effective Ransomware Detection in Databases. Hagen, Christoph; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Iffländer, Lukas; Jobst, Michael; Kounev, Samuel; in 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) (2018).
  • Hardening Bitcoin Against Off-Topic Data Inclusion Attacks. Seeg, Andreas; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2018, August).
  • SmarTor: Smarter Tor with Smart Contracts: Improving resilience of topology distribution in the Tor network. Greubel, Andre; Dmitrienko, Alexandra; Kounev, Samuel; in Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) (2018).
  • DIMAQS - Dynamic Identification of Malicious Query Sequences. Jobst, Michael; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2018, June).
  • Design of a Shared Parking System with Special Attention to Security Aspects. Englert, Simon; Thesis; University of Würzburg. (2018, August).