DR. SIEGFRIED RASTHOFER
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KEYNOTES • REVERSE ENGINEERING • AI SECURITY RESEARCH

Real-World Breaches, Reverse Engineering & AI Security

Delivering eye-opening keynotes on real-world breach mechanics, hands-on reverse engineering trainings to level up engineering squads, and specialized technical advisory. Founder of the white-hat hacking collective TeamSIK and the commercial reverse engineering platform CodeInspect.

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Dr. Siegfried Rasthofer
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Dr. Siegfried Rasthofer
Independent Cyber Security Advisor, Speaker & Researcher
Founder of TeamSIK (Hacking Collective)
Founder of CodeInspect (Reverse Eng Tool)
CLEARANCE: Ph.D. Computer Science SPECIALTY: AI Security, Reverse Eng & Incident Mechanics
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> Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Rasthofer (TU Darmstadt, 2016)
# Focus & Current Track Record:
> Current: Independent Cyber Security Advisor, Speaker & Security Researcher
> Founder: TeamSIK (White-Hat Hacking Group) & CodeInspect
> Past: Head of Secure Software Eng. @ Fraunhofer SIT • Microsoft Research (Redmond)
> Research: AI Security, Reverse Engineering & Vulnerability Discovery
> Keynotes: DEF CON, Black Hat, VirusBulletin, HITB
> Status: Available for Keynotes, Trainings & Advisory
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[ DISCLOSED RESEARCH, INVITED TALKS & SECURITY ADVISORIES ]
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// 01 _ OFFERINGS & MODULES

Keynotes, Hands-on Trainings & Advisory

Technically rigorous formats for international conferences, engineering squads, and security leadership.

#01_INCIDENTS

Real-World Breach Mechanics & Post-Mortems

Eye-opening keynotes and executive sessions dissecting what actually happens during high-impact cyber incidents: Attacker kill-chains, ransomware playbooks, and lessons learned.

Breach Mechanics Ransomware Tactics Lessons Learned
#02_REVERSE_ENG

Hands-on Reverse Engineering & Offensive Security

Level up your engineering squad: Decompilation, Dalvik/Java bytecode debugging, and circumventing modern anti-analysis and obfuscation routines (beginner to advanced).

Team Level-Up Bytecode Debugging Hands-on Labs
#03_AI_SECURITY

AI Security Research & Secure Software Engineering

Vulnerability discovery and automated code audits: Identifying weaknesses in AI/ML systems, automated taint tracking, and building breach-proof software architectures.

AI / ML Security Static Taint Tracking Architecture Review
// 02 _ HONORS & RECOGNITION

Security Acknowledgements & Honors

Recognized by national foundations, tech giants, and responsible disclosure programs.

2020 PREMIER RESEARCH HONORS
Curious Mind Award // Hall of Fame of German Research

Awarded in the category Digitalization & Robotics by Manager Magazin and Merck Group, recognizing Germany's most promising young researchers alongside Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier.

CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE • GERMAN FEDERAL CHANCELLOR DR. ANGELA MERKEL
„It is a privilege to now be able to induct a renowned scientist and designated Nobel laureate into the Hall of Fame of German Research. The Curious Mind Researcher Award also demonstrates that Germany is a research location that offers superb framework conditions for cutting-edge research,“ she added and congratulated the prizewinners.
Merck Press Statement Manager Magazin Video
2016 1ST PLACE
German Prize for IT-Security

1st place in the prestigious nationwide IT Security Award by the Horst Görtz Foundation for developing the interactive reverse engineering framework CodeInspect.

Award Archive
2024 ACM SIGPLAN
PLDI Most Influential Paper Award

Honored at PLDI in Copenhagen with the 10-year retrospective Most Influential Paper Award for the foundational research work „FlowDroid: Precise Context, Flow, Field, Object-Sensitive and Lifecycle-Aware Taint Analysis for Android Apps“ (PLDI 2014). FlowDroid revolutionized static data-flow analysis in mobile ecosystems and remains one of the most widely cited analyses worldwide.

ACM Paper (DOI) SIGPLAN Awards FlowDroid Engine
2025 ACM SIGSOFT & IEEE TCSE
ICSE Most Influential Paper Award (N-10)

Conferred at the flagship International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) for the seminal research paper „IccTA: Detecting Inter-Component Privacy Leaks in Android Apps“ (ICSE 2015). The award recognizes the paper from a decade ago judged to have had the most enduring impact on the theory and practice of software engineering.

IEEE Paper (DOI) ICSE Award Archive
2018 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE
Software-Engineering Award

Conferred by the Ernst-Denert-Stiftung for pioneering software engineering research and practical automated methods in software security.

Foundation Archive
2014 & 2015 SECURITY BOUNTY
Google Patch Reward & Android Security Team

Official acknowledgement and bug bounty award by the Google Android Security Team for discovering, reporting, and fixing security vulnerabilities in the AOSP.

Android Security Acknowledgements
2016 MIT TECH REVIEW
Innovators Under 35 Germany

Honored as one of the top German innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review ("The Code Inspectors") for breakthrough automated app analysis techniques.

Heise / TR Feature
2018 FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT
Hugo-Geiger-Prize (2nd Place)

Awarded jointly by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for outstanding application-oriented doctoral dissertations.

Fraunhofer Press Release
2017 1ST PLACE DISSERTATION
Fraunhofer ICT Dissertation Award

1st place for the best doctoral dissertation of the year across the entire Fraunhofer Group for Information and Communication Technology.

Fraunhofer IUK Award
2015 THREAT RESEARCH
McAfee Labs Threat Campaign Attribution

Collaborative research with McAfee Research Labs identifying novel cyber threat campaigns (South Korea) and cited in the global McAfee Labs Threat Report.

McAfee Q4 Threat Report Threat Campaign Analysis
2016 INNOVATION & STARTUP
HIGHEST Startup Contest (2nd Place)

Awarded for entrepreneurial tech transfer and software commercialization based on binary analysis tools developed at TU Darmstadt.

TU Darmstadt Announcement
// 03 _ PROFESSIONAL TRACK RECORD

Experience & Career Milestones

Bridging elite international vulnerability research, real-world incident advisory, and emerging AI security.

since 2017
Advisory & Research
Independent Cyber Security Advisor, Speaker & Researcher
Technical Advisory, Keynotes & Security Research
Providing specialized technical advisory, executive keynotes, and deep-dive technical workshops. Translating real-world breach mechanics, attacker patterns, and emerging threats into actionable resilience strategies, with ongoing research in offensive security and AI security.
since 2019
Incident Evaluation
Cyber Incident & Threat Evaluation Specialist
Enterprise Breach Assessment & Threat Analysis
In-depth technical evaluation of active cyber catastrophe cases (Ransomware outbreaks, Business Email Compromise, Advanced Data Extortion). Scrutinizing adversary kill-chains, lateral movement, and systemic technical vulnerabilities.
2017 – 2019
Darmstadt, Germany
Head of Department – Secure Software Engineering
Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT)
Led the research department for binary analysis, mobile security, and automated vulnerability identification. Supervised applied industry audits, founded the white-hat hacking collective TeamSIK, and directed development of CodeInspect.
2015 – 2017
Darmstadt, Germany
Malware and Vulnerability Researcher
Fraunhofer SIT
Architected novel automated frameworks for detecting malware and zero-day vulnerabilities in Android binaries. Published findings at premier international summits (Black Hat, DEF CON, VirusBulletin).
2014
Redmond, WA, USA
Research Intern
Microsoft Research Redmond
Research appointment in the Rigorous Software Engineering Group supervised by Ben Livshits. Focused on automated program analysis and large-scale vulnerability identification.
2012 – 2016
Darmstadt, Germany
Doctoral Researcher (Dr.-Ing. / Ph.D.)
TU Darmstadt • Supervised by Prof. Eric Bodden
Doctoral thesis: "Improving Mobile-Malware Investigations with Static and Dynamic Code Analysis Techniques" (awarded multiple national dissertation prizes). Co-authored foundational security tooling including FlowDroid, Harvester, and SuSi.
2010
Munich, Germany
Bachelor Thesis in Cooperation with Siemens CERT
Siemens CERT Munich / University of Applied Sciences Landshut
Reconstruction of user traces and digital artifact analysis in corporate incident investigations.
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