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Overview

Daniel Gruss is affiliated with Graz University of Technology in Austria and has a strong focus on computer science with a particular emphasis on security and verification in computing. Their research spans various subfields including artificial intelligence, signal processing, hardware and architecture, information systems, and computer networks and communications.

The scientist's main research topics cover several areas:

  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security
  • Cloud Data Security Solutions
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • Cryptographic Implementations and Security
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques

Daniel Gruss has contributed extensively to the academic literature in the field. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Meltdown," 2020, Communications of the ACM
  • "Spectre attacks," 2020, Communications of the ACM
  • "Plundervolt: Software-based Fault Injection Attacks against Intel SGX," 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "Malware Guard Extension: abusing Intel SGX to conceal cache attacks," 2020, Cybersecurity
  • "How Trusted Execution Environments Fuel Research on Microarchitectural Attacks," 2020, IEEE Security & Privacy

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Michael Schwarz, Martin Schwarzl, Andreas Kogler, Jonas Juffinger, and Claudio Canella. These collaborations have contributed to advancing research in microarchitectural attacks and trusted execution environments, among other topics.

Daniel Gruss has also published in various scientific venues, most regularly in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Security & Privacy
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

In addition to articles, the scientist has a book published by Springer Science+Business Media titled Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution

    Paul Kocher;Jann Horn;Anders Fogh;Daniel Genkin

  • Meltdown: reading kernel memory from user space

    Moritz Lipp;Michael Schwarz;Daniel Gruss;Thomas Prescher

  • Flush+Flush: A Fast and Stealthy Cache Attack

    Daniel Gruss;Clémentine Maurice;Klaus Wagner;Stefan Mangard

  • Malware Guard Extension: Using SGX to Conceal Cache Attacks

    Michael Schwarz;Samuel Weiser;Daniel Gruss;Clémentine Maurice

  • Cache template attacks: automating attacks on inclusive last-level caches

    Daniel Gruss;Raphael Spreitzer;Stefan Mangard

  • ZombieLoad: Cross-Privilege-Boundary Data Sampling

    Michael Schwarz;Moritz Lipp;Daniel Moghimi;Jo Van Bulck

  • Rowhammer.js: A Remote Software-Induced Fault Attack in JavaScript

    Daniel Gruss;Clémentine Maurice;Stefan Mangard

  • ARMageddon: cache attacks on mobile devices

    Moritz Lipp;Daniel Gruss;Raphael Spreitzer;Clémentine Maurice

  • Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms

    Victor van der Veen;Yanick Fratantonio;Martina Lindorfer;Daniel Gruss

  • Plundervolt: Software-based Fault Injection Attacks against Intel SGX

    Kit Murdock;David Oswald;Flavio D. Garcia;Jo Van Bulck

  • DRAMA: Exploiting DRAM Addressing for Cross-CPU Attacks

    Peter Pessl;Daniel Gruss;Clémentine Maurice;Michael Schwarz

  • Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution

    Paul Kocher;Daniel Genkin;Daniel Gruss;Werner Haas

  • Prefetch Side-Channel Attacks: Bypassing SMAP and Kernel ASLR

    Daniel Gruss;Clémentine Maurice;Anders Fogh;Moritz Lipp

  • KASLR is Dead: Long Live KASLR

    Daniel Gruss;Moritz Lipp;Michael Schwarz;Richard Fellner

  • Fallout: Leaking Data on Meltdown-resistant CPUs

    Claudio Canella;Daniel Genkin;Lukas Giner;Daniel Gruss

  • LVI: Hijacking Transient Execution through Microarchitectural Load Value Injection

    Jo Van Bulck;Daniel Moghimi;Michael Schwarz;Moritz Lippi

  • Strong and efficient cache side-channel protection using hardware transactional memory

    Daniel Gruss;Julian Lettner;Felix Schuster;Olga Ohrimenko

  • Another Flip in the Wall of Rowhammer Defenses

    Daniel Gruss;Moritz Lipp;Michael Schwarz;Daniel Genkin

  • Spectre attacks: exploiting speculative execution

    Paul Kocher;Jann Horn;Anders Fogh;Daniel Genkin

  • A Systematic Evaluation of Transient Execution Attacks and Defenses

    Claudio Canella;Jo Van Bulck;Michael Schwarz;Moritz Lipp

  • Meltdown: reading kernel memory from user space

    Moritz Lipp;Michael Schwarz;Daniel Gruss;Thomas Prescher

  • Hello from the Other Side: SSH over Robust Cache Covert Channels in the Cloud.

    Clementine Maurice;Manuel Weber;Michael Schwarz;Lukas Giner

  • PLATYPUS: Software-based Power Side-Channel Attacks on x86

    Moritz Lipp;Andreas Kogler;David Oswald;Michael Schwarz

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Schwarz
Michael Schwarz Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Stefan Mangard
Stefan Mangard Graz University of Technology
Daniel Genkin
Daniel Genkin Georgia Institute of Technology
Yuval Yarom
Yuval Yarom Ruhr University Bochum
Berk Sunar
Berk Sunar Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Manuel Costa
Manuel Costa Microsoft (United States)

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