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Zero-Click SnailLoad: From Minimal to No User Interaction
Gast S., Puntigam N., Franza S., Neela S., Gruß D., Ullrich J.
Computer Security – ESORICS 2025
TEEcorrelate: An Information-Preserving Defense against Performance-Counter Attacks on TEEs
Weissteiner H., Rauscher F., Schröder R., Juffinger J., Gast S., Wichelmann J., Eisenbarth T., Gruß D.
USENIX Security 2025
Real-World Study of the Security of Educational Test Systems
Gast S., Felix S., Steinmaurer A., Juffinger J., Gruß D.
10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, Workshop Proceedings
CounterSEVeillance: Performance-Counter Attacks on AMD SEV-SNP
Gast S., Weissteiner H., Schröder R., Gruß D.
Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025
SnailLoad: Exploiting Remote Network Latency Measurements without JavaScript
Gast S., Czerny R., Juffinger J., Rauscher F., Franza S., Gruß D.
Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium
SLUBStick: Arbitrary Memory Writes through Practical Software Cross-Cache Attacks within the Linux Kernel
Maar L., Gast S., Unterguggenberger M., Oberhuber M., Mangard S.
Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium
Divide and Surrender: Exploiting Variable Division Instruction Timing in HQC Key Recovery Attacks
Schröder R., Gast S., Guo Q.
Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium
Remote Scheduler Contention Attacks
Gast S., Juffinger J., Maar L., Royer C., Kogler A., Gruß D.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security - 28th International Conference, FC 2024, Revised Selected Papers
SQUIP: Exploiting the Scheduler Queue Contention Side Channel
Gast S., Juffinger J., Schwarzl M., Saileshwar G., Kogler A., Franza S., Köstl M., Gruß D.
44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 
Systematic Analysis of Programming Languages and Their Execution Environments for Spectre Attacks
Naseredini A., Gast S., Schwarzl M., Bernardo P., Smajic A., Canella. C., Berger M., Gruß D.
ICISSP 2022 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy
Systematic Analysis of Programming Languages and Their Execution Environments for Spectre Attacks
Naseredini A., Gast S., Schwarzl M., Bernardo P., Smajic A., Canella C., Berger M., Gruß D.
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