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

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

Fiedler C., Juffinger J., Neela S., Heckel M., Weissteiner H., Yağlıkçı ., Adamsky F., Gruß D.
NDSS 2026

Zero-Click SnailLoad: From Minimal to No User Interaction

Gast S., Puntigam N., Franza S., Neela S., Gruß D., Ullrich J.
ESORICS 2025, 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2025, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Epistemology of Rowhammer Attacks: Threats to Rowhammer Research Validity

Heckel M., Weissteiner H., Adamsky F., Gruß D.
ESORICS 2025, 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2025, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Systematic Analysis of Kernel Security Performance and Energy Costs

Rauscher F., Herzog B., Hönig T., Gruß D.
ACM ASIA CCS 2025, 20th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM ASIACCS 2025, 1676-1689, (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security)

When Good Kernel Defenses Go Bad: Reliable and Stable Kernel Exploits via Defense-Amplified TLB Side-Channel Leaks

Maar L., Giner L., Gruß D., Mangard S.
Proceedings of the 34rd USENIX Security Symposium, 34th USENIX Security Symposium, (Proceedings of the 34rd USENIX Security Symposium)

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