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Kevin Mallinger delivers guest lecture on sustainable AI applications at Institut Agro Rennes-Angers

June 9, 2026

Kevin Mallinger, researcher at SBA Research, recently delivered a guest lecture on “Sustainable AI Applications” at Institut Agro Rennes-Angers in France. The lecture brought together students, researchers, and faculty members interested in the role of artificial intelligence in addressing sustainability challenges. Read More

SBA Hosts Austrian CTF Team KuK Hofhackerei During DEFCON Qualifiers

June 5, 2026

On the Pentecost weekend, SBA hosted the Austrian CTF team "KuK Hofhackerei" as they participated in the DEFCON CTF Qualifiers. Read More

SBA Security Advisory – SWUpdate Untrusted Script Execution via Signed Update TOCTOU (CVE-2025-41259)

June 3, 2026

SWUpdate before 2026.05 is affected by a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that allows local unprivileged attackers to escalate privileges to root or install untrusted contents using a signed update. Read More

SBA Research at Diversity Event Focused on Engaging Men as Allies

June 3, 2026

Our colleagues Gregor Roschitz (HR) and Jeanine Lefévre (Office of Equal Opportunities) participated in a high-level diversity event organized by CSR Circle, HR Circle, and the Diversity Think Tank in Vienna in mid-May. Both returned with valuable insights and practical new approaches that will help strengthen the ongoing diversity work at SBA Research. Read More

event photo - view to stage and presentation

Best paper award @ CAIS 2026

May 28, 2026

Sebastian Schrittwieser, key researcher at SBA Research and head of the CD-Lab AsTra and Johanna Ullrich, key researcher at SBA Research and Professor of Security at IT:U, received the Best Paper Award at the AgentSkills Workshop at the ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (CAIS 2026) in San José for their work Context Matters: Repository-Aware Security Analysis of the Agent Skill Ecosystem. Read More

ERCIM Spring Meeting 2026

May 26, 2026

On 20–21 May 2026, SBA Research had the pleasure of hosting the ERCIM Spring Meeting at our offices in Vienna. Representatives from ERCIM member institutions across Europe came together for two days of exchange, strategic discussions, and collaborative planning focused on the future of European research in informatics and mathematics. Read More

Participants ERCIM Spring Meeting Dinner

SBA @ ESWC 2026

May 22, 2026

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

New article in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations

May 21, 2026

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

SBA Security Advisory – DFIR-IRIS Alerts Can be Falsely Attributed to Customers (CVE-2026-42547)

May 19, 2026

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

SBA Security Advisory – DFIR-IRIS Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2026-42543)

May 19, 2026

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

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