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Computer Science
Germany
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
73
Citations
21666
World Ranking
1589
National Ranking
62

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Thorsten Holz is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and specializes in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Software.

Their research covers various main topics including:

  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Web Application Security Vulnerabilities
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Spam and Phishing Detection

Thorsten Holz has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • "Leveraging Frequency Analysis for Deep Fake Image Recognition," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "JIT-Picking," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • "Not what you've signed up for: Compromising Real-World LLM-Integrated Applications with Indirect Prompt Injection," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Reproducibility and Replicability of Web Measurement Studies," 2022, Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022
  • "Cupid: Automatic Fuzzer Selection for Collaborative Fuzzing," 2020, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

Their work frequently appears in the following publication venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Security & Privacy
  • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Thorsten Holz collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Lea Schönherr
  • Thorsten Eisenhofer
  • Jonas Ricker
  • Asja Fischer
  • Dorothea Kolossa

Best Publications

  • Toward Automated Dynamic Malware Analysis Using CWSandbox

    C. Willems;T. Holz;F. Freiling

  • Automatic analysis of malware behavior using machine learning

    Konrad Rieck;Philipp Trinius;Carsten Willems;Thorsten Holz_aff n

  • Learning and Classification of Malware Behavior

    Konrad Rieck;Thorsten Holz;Carsten Willems;Patrick Düssel

  • Measurements and mitigation of peer-to-peer-based botnets: a case study on storm worm

    Thorsten Holz;Moritz Steiner;Frederic Dahl;Ernst Biersack

  • Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection

    Niels Provos;Thorsten Holz

  • Measuring and Detecting Fast-Flux Service Networks

    Thorsten Holz;Christian Gorecki;Konrad Rieck;Felix C. Freiling

  • Rishi: identify bot contaminated hosts by IRC nickname evaluation

    Jan Goebel;Thorsten Holz

  • The nepenthes platform : An efficient approach to collect malware

    Paul Baecher;Markus Koetter;Thorsten Holz;Maximillian Dornseif

  • Practical Timing Side Channel Attacks against Kernel Space ASLR

    R. Hund;C. Willems;T. Holz

  • A Practical Attack to De-anonymize Social Network Users

    Gilbert Wondracek;Thorsten Holz;Engin Kirda;Christopher Kruegel

  • Botnet tracking: exploring a root-cause methodology to prevent distributed denial-of-service attacks

    Felix C. Freiling;Thorsten Holz;Georg Wicherski

  • Counterfeit Object-oriented Programming: On the Difficulty of Preventing Code Reuse Attacks in C++ Applications

    Felix Schuster;Thomas Tendyck;Christopher Liebchen;Lucas Davi

  • (Un)informed Consent: Studying GDPR Consent Notices in the Field

    Christine Utz;Martin Degeling;Sascha Fahl;Florian Schaub

  • Return-oriented rootkits: bypassing kernel code integrity protection mechanisms

    Ralf Hund;Thorsten Holz;Felix C. Freiling

  • Cross-Architecture Bug Search in Binary Executables

    Jannik Pewny;Behrad Garmany;Robert Gawlik;Christian Rossow

  • Learning more about the underground economy: a case-study of keyloggers and dropzones

    Thorsten Holz;Markus Engelberth;Felix Freiling

  • REDQUEEN: Fuzzing with Input-to-State Correspondence.

    Cornelius Aschermann;Sergej Schumilo;Tim Blazytko;Robert Gawlik

  • Mobile Security Catching Up? Revealing the Nuts and Bolts of the Security of Mobile Devices

    Michael Becher;Felix C. Freiling;Johannes Hoffmann;Thorsten Holz

  • Not What You've Signed Up For: Compromising Real-World LLM-Integrated Applications with Indirect Prompt Injection

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  • We Value Your Privacy... Now Take Some Cookies: Measuring the GDPR’s Impact on Web Privacy

    Martin Degeling;Christine Utz;Christopher Lentzsch;Henry Hosseini

  • Leveraging Frequency Analysis for Deep Fake Image Recognition

    Joel Frank;Thorsten Eisenhofer;Lea Schönherr;Dorothea Kolossa

  • Intelligent data analysis: keeping pace with technological advances

    Xiaohui Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix C. Freiling
Felix C. Freiling University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi Technical University of Darmstadt
Christopher Kruegel
Christopher Kruegel University of California, Santa Barbara
Lucas Davi
Lucas Davi University of Duisburg-Essen
Herbert Bos
Herbert Bos Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Engin Kirda
Engin Kirda Northeastern University
Christian Rossow
Christian Rossow Saarland University
Cristiano Giuffrida
Cristiano Giuffrida Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Konrad Rieck
Konrad Rieck Technische Universität Braunschweig
Christof Paar
Christof Paar Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

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