Distinguished Practical Paper Award for Jonas Röckl at RAID ’25
At the 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2025), Jonas Röckl, Julian Funk, Matti Schulze, and Tilo Müller received the Distinguished Practical Paper Award for their paper “SH3ARS: Privilege Reduction for ARMv8.0-A Secure Monitors”.
In their work, they redesigned the otherwise omnipotent firmware of ARMv8.0-based devices to ensure that the isolation of the ARM TrustZone Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) remains intact even if an attacker compromises the firmware layer of the device — an attacker model significantly stronger than those typically assumed in TEE-based systems.
The paper was presented in Gold Coast, Australia, on October 20, 2025.