Konrad Rieck 🌈

📣 The Call for Papers for #ACSAC2026 is out and the deadline for paper submissions is 26th May 2026 📣 You can find all the infos on the paper submissions and also the other types of possible submissions in the calls on our website:

Offensive AI Is Here. Now What? Join us at the next BIFOLD Colloquium with Dr. Yisroel Mirsky (April 30, 2026; 4 PM; BIFOLD) More: t1p.de/tbqes @tuberlin.bsky.social

We had the pleasure of welcoming a group of eleven curious and talented young women to BIFOLD for Girls' Day 2026. 🚀 Our participants dove headfirst into the world of computer science and IT security. @tuberlin.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #Science #Girlsday #Zukunftstag

Code Metrics perform as well as LLM-based classifiers for source code vulnerabilities! I'm glad the community didn't shoot the messenger when I presented our recent work at ICSE'26. preprint: mlsec.org/docs/2026-ic... Shout out to Felix, Erik, Jonas, @eisenhofer.bsky.social and @rieck.mlsec.org

BIFOLD supports IEEE SaTML 2026. 🧵 🔔Program Chair: Konrad Rieck, alongside Rachel Cummings 🔔Web Chair: @eisenhofer.bsky.social & Stefan Czybik 🔔Part of the Program Committee: Thorsten Eisenhofer, @kirillbykov.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @tumunich.bsky.social @rieck.mlsec.org @satml.org

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

4 Jahre lang haben wir im Bayer. Forschungsverbund ForDaySec.de untersucht, wie IT-Sicherheit im Alltag funktioniert. Informatik, Soziologie und Recht, 5 Unis, 8 Teilprojekte. Am Mittwoch (25.3.) stellen wir die Ergebnisse in München vor. 1/2

📣 Our paper “On the (In)Security of Loading Machine Learning Models” has been accepted at IEEE S&P 2026 (13% acceptance rate this cycle). (1/5) 👇 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06703 #ieeesp #ieeesp26 #ieee #cybersecurity #softwaresecurity #aisecurity #machinelearning #ml #zeroday

#GirlsDay 2026 Join us at BIFOLD / @tuberlin.bsky.social Three hands-on stations await you in the world of data science & IT security. Register here 👉 t1p.de/2wwys #WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #ComputerScience #cs

Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Volker Markl, Co-Director of BIFOLD, on being elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina! BIFOLD News: t1p.de/1wsrz @tuberlin.bsky.social @dfki.bsky.social @leopoldina.org

💭Ever dreamed of serving on the PC of one of the coolest security conferences in academia? Now is your chance. Nominate yourself and your capable friends for the Program Committee of @acsacconf.bsky.social 2026 🧑‍💻 forms.gle/SMbphtLggYcE...

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin & BIFOLD are #hiring. #W3 #Professorship in Data Engineering in Health, permanent tenure. career.charite.de/calls/aussch... #AcademicSky #chariteBerlin #STEMjobs #academicjobs @tenuretracker.bsky.social #Medinformatics #ClinicalResearch @tuberlin.bsky.social

First Stealth, now FX… Hug your people a little tighter. They won't be around forever.

Lands of Packets TTL exceeded. I would like to collect texts from the scene about FX in his memory. A collection of obituaries that will then be posted on phenoelit.de. If anyone would like to contribute, please contact me. Mail: joernchen@phenoelit.de Signal: jrn.07

We wished we had more time to find the right words, and it is with deep regret that we have to tell you that our founder Felix “FX” Lindner passed away on 2026-03-01. blog.recurity-labs.com/2026-03-02/F...

Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Feb 11, 2026). In our video, BIFOLD researchers provide brief insights into their research areas while voicing their support for diversity in scientific environments. @tuberlin.bsky.social #WomenInScience #DayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience

Although we had secretly planned a small extension, we realized that the initial deadline was off by one… month 😵‍💫 Thus, we are now extending the submission deadline for the "Explainable AI and Security" (XAISEC) workshop: 🌐 https://xaisec-workshop.org ⏱️Deadline: J̶a̶n̶ ̶2̶9̶t̶h̶ Feb 26th, 2026 (AoE)

The Cscript Style Guide just dropped. github.com/domenukk/CSc...

I am delighted to announce I have joined @cispa.de as a tenure-track faculty earlier this month! I’m really excited to join such a stellar team of security and privacy researchers!

📣 Call for papers! If you're interested in all things metascience, consider submitting to the 1st Workshop on Metascience and Critical Reflections in Security & Privacy (MetaCRiSP), co-located with IEEE S&P. Deadline's Feb 12, AoE. CfP & details: metacrisp.org

🎓 10 #PhD positions in #AI & #DataScience - #Berlin BIFOLD is hiring 10 PhD candidates in: 🤖 #MachineLearning 🗄️ #DataManagement 🔗 #ML × #DM Apply until Feb 13, 2026 www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posti... @tuberlin.bsky.social @rieck.mlsec.org #AcademicSky #PhDSky #sciencejobs #academicjobs

Literally every single thing in here was astonishingly evident from the beginning.

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the Senate delegation for visiting BIFOLD at TU Berlin and engaging so openly with our researchers and partners. @tuberlin.bsky.social @fraunhoferhhi.bsky.social @regberlin.bsky.social @xai-berlin.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The Call for Papers for our Special Issue in IEEE Security & Privacy is finally out: Autonomous AI Agents in Computer Security www.computer.org/digital-libr... Deadline is May 1, 2026. We are looking forward to your exciting submissions.

A researcher used more than 2,000 em-dashes in his papers, revealing AI-based manipulation in 400+ papers since 1985. Professor Zeller claims he "typed" these dashes into the paper by using "two hyphens" and a "typesetting" system.

went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible 🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌

Still no plans for March 2026? How about a pretzel and a beer in Munich 🥨🍺 Registration for SaTML is now open: satml.org/attend/ We have a packed program with papers on secure, private, and fair machine learning. Accepted papers here: satml.org/accepted-pap...

The accepted papers for SaTML 2026 are now online: satml.org/accepted-pap... Congratulations to all authors 🎉 and many thanks to everyone who submitted their work! This year, we received 233 submissions, of which 55 papers were accepted. A few revisions are still in the pipeline, so stay tuned.

I have been named an ACM Distinguished Member for "contributions to software security and fuzz testing". Happy and honored! A heartfelt *Thank You* to my nominator and all of you who endorsed and supported me - today and throughout my entire career. 1/2

#ACSAC Test-of-Time Award @acsacconf.bsky.social awarded a Test-of-Time Award for "CUJO: Efficient Detection and Prevention of Drive by Download Attacks" (2010). K Rieck, T Krueger, A Dewald www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... @rieck.mlsec.org @tuberlin.bsky.social #MLSky #MLSecurity #AI

Congratulations to the winners of #ACSAC2025's third test of time award: "Cujo: Efficient Detection and Prevention of Drive-By-Download Attacks" by Konrad Rieck, Tammo Krueger, and Andreas Dewald published in ACSAC 2010. 👏👏👏

🎉 Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Klaus-Robert Müller! Der #TUBerlin- Wissenschaftler und Direktor von @bifold.berlin erhält den renommierten Leibniz-Preis der @dfg.de. Er gilt als Pionier des Maschinellen Lernens und prägt die interdisziplinäre #KI- Forschung seit Jahrzehnten. (1/2) Weiterer Infos 👇

Klaus-Robert Müller, Pioneer in Machine Learning, honored with the 2026 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by @dfg.de www.bifold.berlin/news-events/... @tuberlin.bsky.social #mlsky @xai-berlin.bsky.social #datascience #AI

Huge thanks to my fantastic co-authors Marina MC Höhne, Alexander Warnecke, @lpirch.bsky.social, Klaus-Robert Müller, @rieck.mlsec.org, @slapuschkin.bsky.social, @kirillbykov.bsky.social, and to the UMI Lab, @aifraunhoferhhi.bsky.social, @xai-berlin.bsky.social and @bifold.berlin for the support!

Our lightweight adversarial fine-tuning attack lets you bend a feature to visualize any arbitrary concept. Off-manifold, we impose a hyperbolic activation landscape with its optimum at the target, while preserving on-distribution activations through a weighted two-term loss. 🕵️‍♀️

✈️🇲🇽 Next Wednesday (Dec 3), 1–4 p.m. CST, I’ll be presenting Manipulating Feature Visualizations with Gradient Slingshots at NeurIPS 2025 in Mexico City! Feature Visualization has long been a staple interpretability tool. Our work shows it’s far from reliable! 🚨

Bonus material for The LaTeX Korrektor! Some of you asked: "What are these photos and posters in the background?" Here they come, enlarged and with some details. Enjoy! #LaTeX #LaTeXKorrektor In case you missed it, watch all six episodes of the LaTeX Korrektor here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhsM...

Manipulating Feature Visualizations with Gradient Slingshots @dilya.bsky.social Marina MC Höhne, Alexander Warnecke @lpirch.bsky.social Klaus-Robert Müller @rieck.mlsec.org @slapuschkin.bsky.social @kirillbykov.bsky.social 👇

Gaetano's paper on Scaling Security Testing by Adressing the Reachability Gap has been accepted at #ICSE26! 📝 gpsapia.github.io/files/ICSE_2... 🧑‍💻 github.com/GPSapia/Reac... How to scale automatic security testing to arbitrary systems?

This is the eXplainable AI research channel of the machine learning group of Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller at Technische Universität Berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social & BIFOLD @bifold.berlin. Let's connect! #XAI #ExplainableAI #MechInterp #MachineLearning #Interpretability

Congratulations to Dr. Jonas Dippel on successfully defending his doctoral dissertation titled “Towards Robust Generalizable Machine Learning Models for Computational Pathology.” @tuberlin.bsky.social

On Wednesday, November 5th, as part of our KASTEL Distinguished Lecture Series Prof. Gianluca Stringhini, PhD from Boston University will talk about ‘Improving the Moderation of False Information and Influence Campaigns on Social Media’. Everybody is welcome and stay around for the Q&A afterwards.

Today I turn 60 – and what a journey this has been! Grateful for family, friends, students, colleagues, and a scientific community that keeps me inspired. The big party? You’ll have to wait four years, when I hit my (binary) 1,000,000th birthday. 😉

You prefer to organize your workshop in Europe? We've got you covered! We extended the call for workshops at EuroS&P 2026 to give you a few more days to make the move 😎 See you in Lisbon 🇵🇹 🌐 https://eurosp2026.ieee-security.org/cfw.html ⏱️ Deadline: Oct 2̶4̶t̶h̶ 30th AoE 📍Lisbon, PT

Had a great time visiting @darpsky.bsky.social at Technische Universität Wien last week. It's exciting to see him build up his new group! Many thanks to the whole Security & Privacy research unit for the welcoming atmosphere and interesting discussions!