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Niclas Kühnapfel
dblp:294/6930
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2ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0006-1997-8123ORCID · corroborated
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Security and privacy · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Three Glitches to Rule One Car: Fault Injection Attacks on a Connected EV
Niclas Kühnapfel, Christian Werling, Hans Niklas Jacob, Jean-Pierre Seifert |
AsiaCCS | 1 |
| 2021 | LaserShark: Establishing Fast, Bidirectional Communication into Air-Gapped SystemsabstractPhysical isolation, so called air-gapping, is an effective method for protecting security-critical computers and networks. While it might be possible to introduce malicious code through the supply chain, insider attacks, or social engineering, communicating with the outside world is prevented. Different approaches to breach this essential line of defense have been developed based on electromagnetic, acoustic, and optical communication channels. However, all of these approaches are limited in either data rate or distance, and frequently offer only exfiltration of data. We present a novel approach to infiltrate data to air-gapped systems without any additional hardware on-site. By aiming lasers at already built-in LEDs and recording their response, we are the first to enable a long-distance (25 m), bidirectional, and fast (18.2 kbps in & 100 kbps out) covert communication channel. The approach can be used against any office device that operates LEDs at the CPU’s GPIO interface. Niclas Kühnapfel, Stefan Preußler, Maximilian Noppel, Konrad Rieck, Christian Wressnegger |
ACSAC | 1 |