In the area of expertise ‘IT Forensics’, we research and develop methods for the digital search for evidence in IT systems and on the internet on various specialist topics:

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• Data storage device analysis under Linux and Windows (file systems such as ext[234]/NTFS/FAT)


• Detection of image/video manipulations (e.g., deepfakes) using deep learning classifiers and traditional multimedia forensics


• Robust hash functions for image recognition


• OSINT and crawling, social media and the dark web / cryptocurrencies


• Machine learning for data analysis


• AI security: Attacks on deep learning (classifiers, LLMs) and countermeasures, e.g., against adversarial examples, prompt injection, etc.