Daniel Gruß

Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. BSc

Secure Systems, Professor

Daniel Gruss is a professor in Information Security at the Graz University of Technology, Institute of Information Security. He finished his PhD with distinction in less than 3 years. He has been involved in teaching operating system undergraduate courses since 2010. Daniel's research focuses on software-based attacks and defenses on microarchitectural layers in hardware and software. He implemented the first remote fault attack running in a website, known as Rowhammer.js. He frequently speaks at top international venues, such as Black Hat, Usenix Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, Chaos Communication Congress, and others. His research team was one of the teams that found the Meltdown and Spectre bugs published in early 2018 and designed the software patch (KAISER) against Meltdown which is now integrated in every operating system.
Daniel Gruß

Service

    • Technical Program Committee: AsiaCCS'21, SEC'21, WOOT'20, CARDIS'20, SEC'20, TCHES'20, WOOT'19, SEC'19, CARDS'19, BlueHat IL'19, CCS'18, WOOT '18, WOOT'19, SPACE'18, WoSSCA'18, Kangacrypt'18
 
    • Reviewer: AJSE, PLOS ONE, IET Information Security
 
    • External Reviewer: PoPETS'18, DIMVA'17, EUROCRYPT'17, CHES'16, CT-RSA'16, DATE'16, CT-RSA'15, DATE'15, Indocrypt'15
 

Publications

TELESCOPE: TDX Exploit Leaking Encrypted Data using Sibling Core Performance Counters

Rauscher F., Weissteiner H., Gruß D.
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS ’26)

Continuous User Behavior Monitoring using DNS Cache Timing Attacks

Weissteiner H., Czerny R., Franza S., Gast S., Ullrich J., Gruß D.
NDSS 2026

Memory Band-Aid: A Principled Rowhammer Defense-in-Depth

Fiedler C., Juffinger J., Neela S., Heckel M., Weissteiner H., Yağlıkçı ., Adamsky F., Gruß D.
Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) 2026

FLIPPYRAM: A Large-Scale Study of Rowhammer Prevalence

Heckel M., Sayadi N., Juffinger J., Fiedler C., Gruß D., Adamsky F.
Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) 2026

Verifying DRAM Addressing in Software

Heckel M., Adamsky F., Juffinger J., Rauscher F., Gruß D.
Computer Security - ESORICS 2025 - 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, 2025, Proceedings

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