Swissquote joins ZISC

We are extremely pleased to announce that Swissquote has joined the ZISC center. Swissquote is Switzerland’s market leader in digital banking. Over three million financial products can be traded on its innovative platforms. Swissquote’s core competencies include global stock market trading, the trading and custody of crypto assets, forex trading aas well as savings and

Prof. Kaveh Razavi joins ZISC Faculty

Professor Kaveh Razavi joins the ZISC Faculty. Prof. Razavi is an associate professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich where he leads the Computer Security Group. He is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include computer systems and security with a special focus on

ZISC report 2024 is published!

The ZISC center has published its annual report for 2024. During this year, ZISC continued to work on its core mission which is work on significant and fundamental information security and privacy problems together with is industry partners. Particular topics of focus this year included the research on sovereign smartphone platform, email phishing in large

Stealing Part of a Production Language Model

Researchers from the SPY Lab led by Professor Florian Tramèr along with collaborators have succeeded in extracting secret information on the large language model behind ChatGPT. The team responsibly disclosed the results of their “model stealing attack” to OpenAI. Following the disclosure, the company immediately implemented countermeasures to protect the model. This work represents the

Artificial Bugs for Enhanced Cybersecurity

One-fifth of all cyberattacks target the financial sector, a share that is widely expected to rise. As cyberattacks become more frequent, the quantification and measurement of cyber risk and uncertainty will become pressing issues for policymakers. ZISC supported research from Hans Gersbach and Fikri Pitsuwan that discusses the benefits of ‘bug bounty’ programmes, in which

Ahoi Attacks: Disrupting TEEs with Malicious Notifications

Over the past decade, hardware manufacturers have introduced special support to enable cloud users to safely perform computation on untrusted cloud deployments. This technology, called confidential computing, provides cloud users with guarantees about the applications that they execute and confidentiality and integrity for the data. Currently, confidential computing is employed across various sectors including finance,

Professor Ueli Maurer chosen as SATW member

For his fundamental contributions to cryptography and information security, Professor Ueli Maurer from the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science has been appointed Full Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW). The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW is the most important network of experts for engineering sciences in Switzerland and is in contact with