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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Upcoming Events:

SHECURITY – Introduction to Security degree programs in Austria
27.01.2026
OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup x SBA Security Meetup
28.01.2026
SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
19.02.2026

Recent News:

SBA @ European Virtual Human Twins

End of October, Rudolf Mayer, senior researcher at SBA Research, represented the dAIbetes EU project at the EU's high-level event on the European Virtual Human Twins (VHT) Initiative in Brussels, Belgium, which aims to accelerate innovation and making personalised medicine a reality through virtual human twins. ... 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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New Article in Elsevier Computer & Security

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 "Obfuscation Detection using Matrix Complexity Features of Binary Grayscale Images" in Elsevier's Journal Computers & Security ... 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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SBA @ Ekoparty 2025

SBA Research was proud to participate in the Ekoparty Security Conference 2025, held from October 22-24 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This year, Max Günther and Philipp Frenzel represented SBA Research and the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna… Read More
SBA @ Ekoparty 2025