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Congratulations! MLDM colleagues qualified for the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship Finale

Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... Read More
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SBA Security Meetup Becomes Official OWASP Vienna Chapter

We are pleased to announce that the SBA Security Meetup is now officially operating as the OWASP Vienna Chapter. While the name has evolved, our mission remains unchanged: strengthening the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and experience within the information security community. What started as the SBA… Read More
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1st Working Group Meeting on Sustainability & Computer Science @OCG

On December 2, 2025, the OCG Working Group on Sustainability & Computer Science marked the beginning of a new phase of collaboration with an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary kick-off meeting. Chaired by Kevin Mallinger, lead of the CORE Research Group at SBA Research, the meeting focused on the central theme “AI and Farming” – an area where sustainable computing has the potential to create significant impact... Read More
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SBA @ BSidesVienna 0x7E9

SBA Research has proudly supported BSidesVienna as a Gold Sponsor for several years. We’re committed to fostering independent security research and collaboration within the cybersecurity community, and BSidesVienna is an excellent platform for advancing these goals. This year our colleagues Fabian Funder and Mathias Tausig, gave insightful talks… Read More
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Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

Global Collection of User Data Was Possible Through a – Now Resolved – Privacy Vulnerability. Computer scientists from the University of Vienna and SBA Research have uncovered a significant privacy vulnerability in WhatsApp’s Contact Discovery mechanism. Exploiting this weakness, they were able to perform an unprecedented global enumeration of all… Read More
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Best Paper Award @ RAID 2025

Researchers from SBA Research, the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna and the UniVie Doctoral School Computer Science, have been honored with the Best Paper Award at the 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses… Read More
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# SaarCTF with We_0wn_Y0u and ADCS Students

At the begin of November, We_0wn_Y0u hosted around 60 students from the course Attacks and Defenses in Computer Security at SBA to participate in SaarCTF. The course is held jointly with the Research Unit Security and Privacy at… Read More
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New Article in MDPI Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction

Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled Classification of Obfuscation Techniques in LLVM IR: Machine Learning on Vector Representations in MDPI's journal Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction. ... Read More
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