Security and Privacy

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Sebastian Schrittwieser

Research Group Security and Privacy

Kolingasse 14-16
1090 Wien
Room : 05.24

sebastian.schrittwieser(at)univie.ac.at

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Courses

Winter term 2026

052012 VU Software Security
500502 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Models and Systems

Summer term 2026

051021 VO Operating Systems

Winter term 2025

052012 VU Software Security

Publications

Local drivers of anthropogenic forest fire ignition vulnerability in Austria. / Wimmer, Elisabeth (Corresponding author); Mallinger, Kevin (Corresponding author); Corpaci, Luiza et al.
In: Fire Ecology, Vol. 22, No. 1, 59, 12.2026.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1186/s42408-026-00496-2

A Method for Packed Malware Detection and possible Payload Identification through Convolutional Neural Networks. / Tavolato, Paul; Schrittwieser, Sebastian; Kochberger, Patrick et al.
Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computing Research. 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

A Privacy-Preserving and Explainable Method for (Obfuscated) Malware Detection in Android Environment. / Mercaldo, Francesco; Schrittwieser, Sebastian; Kochberger, Patrick et al.
Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computing Research. 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

SaMBA: Increasing Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Complexity Through Equality Saturation. / König, Caroline; Schmidt, David; König, Philip et al.
ACM ASIACCS 2026. 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

Mean Reversion and Heavy Tails: Characterizing Time-Series Data Using Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes and Machine Learning. / Raubitzek, Sebastian; Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Corresponding author); Goldenits, Georg et al.
In: Sensors, Vol. 26, No. 4, 1263, 14.02.2026.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.3390/s26041263

Average Volatility Dimensioning (AVD): dimension reduction technique for multivariate time series. / Mallinger, Kevin; Marica, Edina; Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Corresponding author) et al.
In: International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, Vol. 22, No. 1, 30, 12.01.2026.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1007/s41060-025-00894-w

Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. / Schmidt, David ; Schrittwieser, Sebastian ; Weippl, Edgar R.
CCS 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2025. p. 2459-2473.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1145/3719027.3765033

Obfuscation Detection using Matrix Complexity Features of Binary Grayscale Images. / Raubitzek, Sebastian; Schrittwieser, Sebastian ; König, Caroline et al.
In: Computers & Security, 11.11.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2025.104746

OSAGE - A Framework for Obfuscated Sample Generation and Evaluation. / Schrittwieser, Sebastian; Kochberger, Patrick; Lienhart, Florian et al.
Security and Cryptography (Communications in Computer and Information Science, Volume 2588). Springer, 2025.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

Classification of Obfuscation Techniques in LLVM IR: Machine Learning on Vector Representations. / Raubitzek, Sebastian; Felbauer, Patrick; Mallinger, Kevin et al.
In: Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, Vol. 7, No. 4, 125, 22.10.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.3390/make7040125

Projects

Assurance and Transparency in Software Protection (AsTra)

Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Project Lead)

01/04/2024 31/03/2029

Active

Towards an Academic Security Operations Center

Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Project Lead)

08/01/2024 31/03/2026

Finished

Dein AI-Assistent zur sicheren Web-Applikation (WebSecBot)

Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Project Lead)

01/01/2024 30/06/2025

Finished

Sensibilisierung für Datentransparenz in Social Media (DaTra)

Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Project Lead)

01/12/2022 31/01/2024

Finished

Integratives Konzept zur Datenfusionierung und Optimierung von Waldbrand-Monitoringprozessen

Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Project Lead)

01/07/2022 28/02/2025

Finished

Social Engineering - digitale Manipulationen durch Cyberkriminelle

Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Project Lead)

01/07/2021 30/04/2022

Finished

Phishing mit Psychologie besiegen!

Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Project Lead)

01/12/2020 30/11/2021

Finished

Evaluierungsmodelle für Resilience und Stealth von Softwares

Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Project Lead)

01/10/2020 28/02/2023

Finished

Inferenz optimaler Cyber-Verteidigungsstrategien

Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Project Lead)

01/10/2020 31/03/2025

Finished

SBA Research Kooperation

Weippl, Edgar (Project Lead), Schrittwieser, Sebastian (Scientific Project Staff), Limbeck-Lilienau, Barbara (Project Staff), König, Philip (Scientific Project Staff), Schatten, Alexander (Scientific Project Staff), Schedlbauer, Peter (Scientific Project Staff), Nowak, Veronika (Scientific Project Staff), Kusen, Ema (Scientific Project Staff), Seidl, Esther (Scientific Project Staff)

01/07/2020 31/03/2025

Finished