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IMF 2026 - Two Papers accepted

Our articles on "Frankenstein’s RAM: A Simulation Framework for Evaluating Memory Forensic Acquisition Strategies" and "Process Priority in Memory Acquisition: Evaluating Its Influence on Memory Dump Consistency" were accepted at IMF 2026.

DFRWS EU 2026 - Two Papers accepted

Our articles on "Addressing the Dataset Gap Problem with Generative AI: Towards LLM-driven Forensic Scenarios for Dataset Generation" and "Boon or Bane: Source Camera Identification meets AI-generated Images" were accepted at the DFRWS EU 2026.

DFRWS APAC 2025 - Paper accepted

Our article on "Media Source Similarity Hashing (MSSH): A Practical Method for Large-Scale Media Investigations" was accepted at DFRWS APAC 2025. The paper will be presented at the Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS) APAC 2025 in November 2025 in Seoul, South Korea.

IMF 2025 - Two Papers accepted

Our articles on "Metrics Matter - Source Camera Forensics for Large-Scale Investigations" and "From IaC to IoC—Using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to Generate Synthetic Datasets of Compromised (IoC) Linux Systems for Use in Digital Forensics" were accepted at IMF 2025.

SPRING 2025 - Abstracts accepted

Our extended abstracts on "Quality of Inconsistencies in (Windows) Memory Dumps" and "Bringing AI into ForTrace++ – A Framework for Automatic Data Synthesis" were accepted for presentation at the SPRING graduate workshop 2025.

FSI: Digital Investigation - Joint paper with ZITiS published

Our article "Towards reliable data in the scope of unmanned aircraft systems" is published in the FSI Digital Investigation Journal.

DFRWS EU 2025 - Paper accepted

Our paper on "A Scenario-based Quality Assessment of Memory Acquisition Tools and its Investigative Implications" was accepted for presentation at the DFRWS EU 2025.

Michael Mundt successfully defended his PHD thesis

On January 28th Michael Mundt defended his PhD thesis "On efficient and effective Cyber Threat Intelligence-based Mitigation of Data Exfiltration". Congratulations to the excellent grade (magna cum laude).

FSI: Digital Investigation - Two papers accepted

Our two articles on "Source Camera Identification" and "Optimising data set creation in the cybersecurity landscape with a special focus on digital forensics" have been accepted in the FSI Digital Investigation Journal.

NordSec 2024 - Paper accepted

We will present our work on Do-it-yourself drones in Karlstad (Sweden) at the NordSec 2024.

ForTrace Workshop @ DFRWS APAC 2024

We are offering a workshop at DFRWS APAC 2024 on our data synthesis framework ForTrace.

IWODF 2024 - Paper accepted

Our paper on "Scenario-based Data Set Generation for Use in Digital Forensics: A Case Study" was accepted for presentation at the IWODF (INFORMATIK) 2024.

IMF 2024 - Two papers accepted

Our two papers on "Data Synthesis is Going Mobile – On Community-driven Dataset Generation for Android Devices" and "Causal Inconsistencies are Normal in Windows Memory Dumps (too)" were accepted for presentation at the IMF 2024.

Vortrag des Forschungsinstituts CODE auf der 31. DFN-CERT Konferenz in Hamburg

Als externer Doktorand stellte Michael Mundt die Arbeit "Gib dem Dino Futter – adaptive Detektion von Bedrohungen in KRITIS-Netzwerken mittels Open-Source-Forensik" auf der 31. DFN-CERT Konferenz am 30./31. Januar vor.

ForTrace Workshop @ DFRWS EU 2024

We will present our research on the ForTrace data synthesis framework for digital forensics at the DFRWS EU 2024.

DFRWS EU 2024 - Two papers accepted

Our two papers on "Hypervisor-based Data Synthesis: On its Potential to Tackle the Curse of Client-side Agent Remnants in Forensic Image Generation" and "Ubi est indicium? On Forensic Analysis of the UBI File System" were accepted for presentation at the DFRWS EU 2024.

IFIP WG 11.9 ICDF 2024 - Paper accepted and presented

Our paper on "Usable and Assessable Generation of Forensic Data Sets Containing Anti-Forensic Traces at the Filesystem Level" was accepted for presentation at the IFIP WG 11.9 ICDF 2024.

AICSEC 2023 - Paper accepted

We will present our work on "Scalable Image Clustering to screen for self-produced CSAM" in Bratislava at the AICSEC 2023.

NordSec 2023 - Paper accepted

We will present our work on WhatsApp Stickers in Oslo at the NordSec 2023.

DFRWS USA 2023 - PAPER ACCEPTED

Our paper Combining AI and AM - Improving Approximate Matching through Transformer Networks was accepted at the DFRWS USA 2023.

1st Place at Digital Forensics Rodeo at DFRWS EU 2023

Our team won 1st place at the Digital Forensics Rodeo at DFRWS EU 2023.

Drone Forensics Workshop @ CODE Jahrestagung

We will present our drone forensics research in cooperation with ZITiS at the CODE Jahrestagung.

We are hosting the IMF 2023!

The professorship of DigFor is proud to host the 12th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics at UniBw M. We also have two papers that have been accepted!

1st Place at Digital Forensics Rodeo at DFRWS USA

Our team won 1st place at the Digital Forensics Rodeo at DFRWS USA 2022

DFRWS USA 2022 - Paper accepted

Our paper FRASHER - A framework for automated evaluation of similarity hashing was accepted at the DFRWS USA 2022.

Digitale Forensik: Dem Cybercrime auf der Spur

Am FI CODE wird derzeit in den Bereichen IT-Sicherheit, Quantentechnologien und Smart Data geforscht – wir geben Einblicke. Heute: Prof. Dr. Harald Baier über sein Forschungsgebiet Digitale Forensik.

Lorenz Liebler successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis

Lorenz Liebler successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Towards Carving-Based Post-Mortem Memory Forensics and the Applicability of Approximate Matching” on December 7th 2021.

DFRWS EU 2022 - Paper accepted

Our paper ForTrace - A Holistic Forensic Data Set Synthesis Framework was accepted at the DFRWS EU 2022.

IFIP WG 11.9 ICDF 2022 - Two Papers accepted

Two of our papers were accepted at the Eighteenth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 2022 International Conference on Digital Forensics.

ICDF2C 2021 - Two papers accepted and presented

Two papers accepted and presented at ICDF2C 2021.