Cristian Munteanu
- Address
- Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Saarland Informatics Campus
Campus E1 4
66123 Saarbrücken - Location
- E1 4 - 528
- Phone
- +49 681 9325 3529
- Fax
- +49 681 9325 5719
- Get email via email
Cristian Munteanu
Personal Information
- Husband of one
- Father of two
- Cat owner
Hobbies:
- Cooking
- Guitar and Piano
- Music (Classic, ’60, ’70 and ‘80)
- Video Games
- Movies and Series (big fan of J.R.R.Tolkien, J.K.Rowlings and Stan Lee)
- DIY Arduino projects
- Swimming
- Chess
Languages:
- Romanian
- English
- French
- Russian
- German (learning)
Programming Languages:
NodeJS, Python, R , C/C++
Publications
2025
Munteanu, C., Smaragdakis, G., Feldmann, A., & Fiebig, T. (n.d.). Catch-22: Uncovering Compromised Hosts using SSH Public Keys. In Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium. Seattle, WA, USA: USENIX.
(Accepted/in press) Export
BibTeX
@inproceedings{MunteanuUSENIX25,
TITLE = {Catch-22: {U}ncovering Compromised Hosts using {SSH} Public Keys},
AUTHOR = {Munteanu, Cristian and Smaragdakis, Georgios and Feldmann, Anja and Fiebig, Tobias},
LANGUAGE = {eng},
PUBLISHER = {USENIX},
YEAR = {2025},
PUBLREMARK = {Accepted},
MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$},
BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium},
ADDRESS = {Seattle, WA, USA},
}
Endnote
%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Munteanu, Cristian
%A Smaragdakis, Georgios
%A Feldmann, Anja
%A Fiebig, Tobias
%+ Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
%T Catch-22: Uncovering Compromised Hosts using SSH Public Keys :
%G eng
%U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-89BB-1
%D 2025
%B 34th USENIX Security Symposium
%Z date of event: 2025-08-13 - 2025-08-15
%C Seattle, WA, USA
%B Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium
%I USENIX
%U https://doi.org/10.17617/3.LVPCS6
2024
Munteanu, C., Smaragdakis, G., & Feldmann, A. (2024). Poster: The State of Malware Loaders. In IMC ’24, ACM on Internet Measurement Conference. Madrid, Spain: ACM. doi:10.1145/3646547.3689659
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{Munteanu_IMC24,
TITLE = {Poster: {T}he State of Malware Loaders},
AUTHOR = {Munteanu, Cristian and Smaragdakis, Georgios and Feldmann, Anja},
LANGUAGE = {eng},
ISBN = {979-8-4007-0592-2},
DOI = {10.1145/3646547.3689659},
PUBLISHER = {ACM},
YEAR = {2024},
MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$},
DATE = {2024},
BOOKTITLE = {IMC '24, ACM on Internet Measurement Conference},
EDITOR = {Vallina-Rodr{\'i}guez, Narseo and Suarez-T{\'a}ngil, Guillermo and Levin, Dave and Pelsser, Cristal and Pastrana, Sergio and Sun, Yixin},
PAGES = {745--746},
ADDRESS = {Madrid, Spain},
}
Endnote
%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Munteanu, Cristian
%A Smaragdakis, Georgios
%A Feldmann, Anja
%+ Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
%T Poster: The State of Malware Loaders :
%G eng
%U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-6C4A-3
%R 10.1145/3646547.3689659
%D 2024
%B ACM on Internet Measurement Conference
%Z date of event: 2024-11-04 - 2024-11-06
%C Madrid, Spain
%B IMC '24
%E Vallina-Rodríguez, Narseo; Suarez-Tángil, Guillermo; Levin, Dave; Pelsser, Cristal; Pastrana, Sergio; Sun, Yixin
%P 745 - 746
%I ACM
%@ 979-8-4007-0592-2
2023
Munteanu, C., Gasser, O., Poese, I., Smaragdakis, G., & Feldmann, A. (2023). Enabling Multi-hop ISP-Hypergiant Collaboration. In ANRW ’23, Applied Networking Research Workshop. San Francisco, CA, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/3606464.3606487
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{MunteanuANRW23,
TITLE = {Enabling Multi-hop {ISP}-Hypergiant Collaboration},
AUTHOR = {Munteanu, Cristian and Gasser, Oliver and Poese, Ingmar and Smaragdakis, Georgios and Feldmann, Anja},
LANGUAGE = {eng},
ISBN = {979-8-4007-0274-7},
DOI = {10.1145/3606464.3606487},
PUBLISHER = {ACM},
YEAR = {2023},
MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$},
DATE = {2023},
BOOKTITLE = {ANRW '23, Applied Networking Research Workshop},
PAGES = {54--59},
ADDRESS = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
}
Endnote
%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Munteanu, Cristian
%A Gasser, Oliver
%A Poese, Ingmar
%A Smaragdakis, Georgios
%A Feldmann, Anja
%+ Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
External Organizations
External Organizations
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
%T Enabling Multi-hop ISP-Hypergiant Collaboration :
%G eng
%U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-38ED-5
%R 10.1145/3606464.3606487
%D 2023
%B Applied Networking Research Workshop
%Z date of event: 2023-07-24 - 2023-07-24
%C San Francisco, CA, USA
%B ANRW '23
%P 54 - 59
%I ACM
%@ 979-8-4007-0274-7
Munteanu, C., Saidi, S. J., Gasser, O., Smaragdakis, G., & Feldmann, A. (2023). Fifteen Months in the Life of a Honeyfarm. In IMC ’23, ACM on Internet Measurement Conference. Montreal, Canada: ACM. doi:10.1145/3618257.3624826
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{Munteanu_IMC23,
TITLE = {Fifteen Months in the Life of a Honeyfarm},
AUTHOR = {Munteanu, Cristian and Saidi, Said Jawad and Gasser, Oliver and Smaragdakis, Georgios and Feldmann, Anja},
LANGUAGE = {eng},
ISBN = {979-8-4007-0382-9},
DOI = {10.1145/3618257.3624826},
PUBLISHER = {ACM},
YEAR = {2023},
MARGINALMARK = {$\bullet$},
DATE = {2023},
BOOKTITLE = {IMC '23, ACM on Internet Measurement Conference},
EDITOR = {Montpetit, Marie-Jos{\'e} and Leivadeas, Aris},
PAGES = {282--296},
ADDRESS = {Montreal, Canada},
}
Endnote
%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Munteanu, Cristian
%A Saidi, Said Jawad
%A Gasser, Oliver
%A Smaragdakis, Georgios
%A Feldmann, Anja
%+ Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
Internet Architecture, MPI for Informatics, Max Planck Society
%T Fifteen Months in the Life of a Honeyfarm :
%G eng
%U http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-390E-0
%R 10.1145/3618257.3624826
%D 2023
%B ACM on Internet Measurement Conference
%Z date of event: 2023-10-24 - 2023-10-26
%C Montreal, Canada
%B IMC '23
%E Montpetit, Marie-José; Leivadeas, Aris
%P 282 - 296
%I ACM
%@ 979-8-4007-0382-9
Teachings
Data Networks Lecture summer semester 2021
Recent Positions
March 2021 - present:
PhD student at Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics
May 2018 - March 2021:
IoT Cybersecurity Researcher, Bitdefender
May 2014 - May 2018:
Antispam Researcher, Bitdefender
Education
2015 - 2017:
Masters Degree of Computer Science in Computational Optimization, University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” of Iasi, Romania, Faculty of Computer Science
2012 – 2015:
Bachelor Degree of Computer Science, University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” of Iasi, Romania, Faculty of Computer Science