01. $ whoami // about
| [NAME]: | Karina Elzer |
| [NATIONALITY]: | German |
| [OCCUPATION]: | PhD Student |
| [AFFILIATION]: | Technical University of Denmark (DTU) |
| [DEGREES]: | MSc (2024), BSc (2021) - Technical University of Kaiserslautern/RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau |
| [INTERESTS]: | Cyber Deception, Operational Technology (OT), Internet Measurements, Data Analysis |
| [HOBBIES]: | Languages, Photography, Hacking |
| [CONTACT]: | kaelz[@]dtu[.]dk // Linkedin |
[SUMMARY]: I am a PhD Student and researcher at the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Section for Cybersecurity Engineering.
My current work focuses on Cyber Deception. Specifically, I am working on securing Operational Technology with Cyber Deception techniques and improving log analysis and extraction of Threat Intelligence from deception logs.
02. RECENT_INTEL // news
[2026.08] [Paper] Our position paper "Position Paper: Bridging Cyber Deception and CTI through STIX-Based Honeypot Log Mapping" got accepted to AD&D Workshop of Esorics 2026. I will join the conference and workshop, see you there. [LINK]
03. Community
| DTU Hacker Lab [Student Club] | Main Organizer |
| Honeynet [Non-Profit Organization] | Member |
| Hack The Box [Learning Lab] | Copenhagen's Meetups Host |
| GSoC [Google Summer Of Code] | Mentor |
| ACSAC, ARES, Esorics [Peer Reviewer] | (Sub-)Reviewer |
04. ARTIFACT_DEVELOPMENT // projects
DICOMHawk - A DICOM honeypot for detecting and logging unauthorized access attempts.
[Co-Mantainer] [SOURCE_CODE]
[Co-Mantainer] [SOURCE_CODE]
05. DISSEMINATION // publications & talks
[2026] [WORKSHOP_PAPER]
Karina Elzer, Tillmann Angeli, Stylianos Malamas, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
Position Paper: Bridging Cyber Deception and CTI through STIX-Based Honeypot Log Mapping
Workshop on Active Defense and Deception (AD&D) 2026, Rome, Italy
URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/412255234_Position_Paper_Bridging_Cyber_Deception_and_CTI_through_STIX-Based_Honeypot_Log_Mapping
Karina Elzer, Tillmann Angeli, Stylianos Malamas, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
Position Paper: Bridging Cyber Deception and CTI through STIX-Based Honeypot Log Mapping
Workshop on Active Defense and Deception (AD&D) 2026, Rome, Italy
URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/412255234_Position_Paper_Bridging_Cyber_Deception_and_CTI_through_STIX-Based_Honeypot_Log_Mapping
[2026] [PREPRINT]
Karina Elzer and Alberto Mongardini and Ricardo Yaben and Georgios Theodoridis and Alexandra Babanuta and Nawras Mouala and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
DICOMHawk: A Cyber Deception Framework for Medical Imaging Infrastructure
URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15754
Karina Elzer and Alberto Mongardini and Ricardo Yaben and Georgios Theodoridis and Alexandra Babanuta and Nawras Mouala and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
DICOMHawk: A Cyber Deception Framework for Medical Imaging Infrastructure
URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15754
[2026] [PREPRINT]
Ricardo Yaben, Karina Elzer, Alberto Maria Mongardini, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
Is That Really My X-Ray? Measuring Internet-Exposed DICOM Services in the Presence of Deception
URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15839
Ricardo Yaben, Karina Elzer, Alberto Maria Mongardini, Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
Is That Really My X-Ray? Measuring Internet-Exposed DICOM Services in the Presence of Deception
URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15839
[2026] [DEMO_PAPER]
T. Angeli, K. Elzer, D. Perryman and H. D. Schotten
Chat2Pot: Chatting a Honeypot into Existence
IEEE INFOCOM 2026 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Tokyo, Japan, 2026, pp. 1876-1877
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571405
T. Angeli, K. Elzer, D. Perryman and H. D. Schotten
Chat2Pot: Chatting a Honeypot into Existence
IEEE INFOCOM 2026 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Tokyo, Japan, 2026, pp. 1876-1877
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM59046.2026.11571405
[2026] [PREPRINT]
Alberto Maria Mongardini, Arthur Cordeiro, Karina Elzer, Ilaria Giacometti, Dario Maddaloni, Anastasia Safargalieva, Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
A Systematic Meta-Survey of Cyber Deception: Unified Taxonomy and Research Directions.
TechRxiv. 10 January 2026.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.176800929.95140503/v1
Alberto Maria Mongardini, Arthur Cordeiro, Karina Elzer, Ilaria Giacometti, Dario Maddaloni, Anastasia Safargalieva, Ricardo Yaben, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis
A Systematic Meta-Survey of Cyber Deception: Unified Taxonomy and Research Directions.
TechRxiv. 10 January 2026.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.176800929.95140503/v1
[2025] [CONFERENCE_PAPER]
K. Elzer, E. Jedermann, S. Roos and J. Schmitt,
They See Me Scooting — A Long-Term Real-World Data Analysis of Shared Micro-Mobility Services and their Privacy Leakage.
2025 IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Venice, Italy, 2025, pp. 78-92,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSP63326.2025.00014
[Poster]
K. Elzer, E. Jedermann, S. Roos and J. Schmitt,
They See Me Scooting — A Long-Term Real-World Data Analysis of Shared Micro-Mobility Services and their Privacy Leakage.
2025 IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Venice, Italy, 2025, pp. 78-92,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSP63326.2025.00014
[Poster]
[2025] [WORKSHOP_TALK]
Karina Elzer
Lightning Talk: Introducing DICOMHawk: A High-Interaction Medical Honeypot
The Honeynet Project Annual workshop 2025, Prague, Czech Republic - June 2-4, 2025
LINKS: [Workshop_Page], [Talk]
Karina Elzer
Lightning Talk: Introducing DICOMHawk: A High-Interaction Medical Honeypot
The Honeynet Project Annual workshop 2025, Prague, Czech Republic - June 2-4, 2025
LINKS: [Workshop_Page], [Talk]
[2023] [CONFERENCE_POSTER] [BEST_POSTER_AWARD]
Reti D., Elzer K. and Schotten H.,
SCANTRAP: Protecting Content Management Systems from Vulnerability Scanners with Cyber Deception and Obfuscation.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-624-8, pages 485-492, (2023).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5220/0011667400003405
Reti D., Elzer K. and Schotten H.,
SCANTRAP: Protecting Content Management Systems from Vulnerability Scanners with Cyber Deception and Obfuscation.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-624-8, pages 485-492, (2023).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5220/0011667400003405
[2022] [WORKSHOP_PAPER]
Daniel Reti, Daniel Fraunholz, Karina Elzer, Daniel Schneider, and Hans Dieter Schotten,
Evaluating Deception and Moving Target Defense with Network Attack Simulation.
In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD'22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 45-53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3560828.3564006
Daniel Reti, Daniel Fraunholz, Karina Elzer, Daniel Schneider, and Hans Dieter Schotten,
Evaluating Deception and Moving Target Defense with Network Attack Simulation.
In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD'22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 45-53.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3560828.3564006