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SBA Research at a glance

New paper accepted @ 35th USENIX Security Symposium

New paper “Send and Pretend: Exploiting Transcript Consistency Issues in End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats”, was recently accepted for the 35th USENIX Security Symposium. The paper is a collaboration between SBA, the University of Vienna, and the Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria (IT:U). It was authored by Gabriel K. Gegenhuber, Moritz Grefner, Maximilian Günther, Matthäus Wininger, David Schmidt, and Aljosha Judmayer. ∞

SBA Security Advisory – DFIR-IRIS Stored XSS (CVE-2026-16969, CVE-2026-18360, CVE-2026-18361)

The IRIS web application in version 2.4.26 and possibly others is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the assets (CVE-2026-16969), custom attributes (CVE-2026-18360) and datastore upload (CVE-2026-18361) functions. ∞

“Best of the Best”-Award for Sebastian Schrittwieser, Sebastian Raubitzek, Kevin Mallinger, and Edgar Weippl

We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞

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