SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Our colleague Andreas Ekelhart, key researcher and Applied Research Lead at SBA Research and researcher at the Research Group Security & Privacy at University of Vienna,, presented his conference paper titled AgentO: An Ontology for Modeling Agentic AI Systems at the 23rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2026) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Read More
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 “Fractals in Neural Networks: Introducing a New Class of Activation Functions” in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations in collaboration with the CD lab AsTra. Read More
Users can create alerts for customers that are not assigned to them. This can be abused to falsely attribute fake alerts to customers. In combination with Cross-Site Scripting, this can also be used to exfiltrate alerts from other customers. Read More
The IRIS web application is vulnerable to a Cross-site request forgery attack, because it uses the HTTP method GET to change state on the server. Read More
The IRIS web application does not properly validate uploaded files. It can therefore be misused to host phishing pages, amongst other things. This also creates an instance of a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Read More
The IRIS web application contains a weakness where an attacker can misuse it to redirect the user to a malicious website controlled by an attacker. Read More
This May, SBA Research opens its doors to the European research community. From 20–21 May 2026, we are hosting the ERCIM Spring Meetings at our Vienna offices, welcoming representatives from member institutions across Europe for two days of strategic discussions, board deliberations, and collaborative exchange. It is a moment we have been looking forward to, and one that reflects the strength of the partnerships we have built over the years within ERCIM. Read More
The 21th International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2026) took center stage in Linköping, Sweden, from August 24 - 27, 2026, offering a platform for experts and enthusiasts to explore the latest developments in the field. The conference was jointly organised by Linköpings universitet (LiU) and SBA Research. ∞
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. ∞
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. ∞