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New article in IEEE Transactions on Reliability

May 4, 2026

In April, our colleague Anastasia Pustozerova is researcher at SBA Research and has published a journal article titled “Lightweight Techniques for Federated Anomaly Detection in Log Data” in IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Read More

Caroline König @ Lange Nacht der Forschung

April 28, 2026

Our colleague Caroline König, researcher at SBA Research and research assistant at the CD-Lab AsTra took part in the CDG-Science-Slam and presented her research on software protection. Within just a few minutes, she gave attendees an entertaining and accessible look at the challenges of shielding software from analysis and tampering, a topic that has become increasingly critical in today's security landscape. Read More

Caroline König @ Lange Nacht der Forschung

SBA Security Advisory – GoAnywhere MFT Email HTML Injection (CVE-2026-0972)

April 24, 2026

GoAnywhere MFT before 7.10.0 is affected by an HTML injection vulnerability in its email templating functionality. If an attacker is able to influence the content of a template variable, malicious HTML can be embedded into outgoing emails generated by the application. As these messages originate from a trusted system, the vulnerability may facilitate phishing and other social-engineering attacks. The issue arises from insufficient HTML encoding of untrusted input before inclusion in HTML email content. Read More

SBA @ SAINT 2026

April 20, 2026

Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research, gave a talk titled “Fraktale Aktivierungsfunktionen in neuronalen Netzen” at the Social Artificial Intelligence Night (SAINT) 2026. Read More

Sebastian Schrittwieser featured in article on Router Cyberattacks

April 20, 2026

Sebastian Schrittwieser, researcher at SBA Research and the University of Vienna, was recently featured in an article by futurezone.at discussing large-scale cyberattacks targeting internet routers. Read More

Sebastian Schrittwieser featured in article on Router Cyberattacks

ACSC Workshop: Deobfuscation and Reverse Engineering of Protected Code

April 16, 2026

SBA Research was pleased to host the first workshop of the year in collaboration with the Austrian Cyber Security Challenge (ACSC). The session took place in a hybrid format, welcoming participants both on-site in Vienna and online via Discord. Read More

ACSC Workshop: Deobfuscation and Reverse Engineering of Protected Code

Congratulations to Edgar Weippl on his Appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science!

April 8, 2026

We warmly congratulate Edgar Weippl, Scientific Director of SBA Research and Head of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, on his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science. Read More

2nd OWASP Security Meetup @ SBA

April 7, 2026

On March 31, our 2nd OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup took place, featuring three excellent speaker sharing insights on OT-Security and a bit more. Read More

SBA @ BOB 2026

April 4, 2026

In March, our colleague Michael Koppmann, senior information security consultant at SBA Research, gave an insightful talk titled Illegal States Are My Favorite Security Vulnerabilities (to Delete at Compile Time) at the BOB 2026 Conference in Berlin, Germany. Read More

Bernhard Garn Co-Edits New Springer Volume on Hybrid Threats and Disaster Dynamics

April 3, 2026

We are pleased to announce the publication of Dynamics of Disasters: Hybrid Threats, a new volume in the Springer Optimization and Its Applications series. The book was published in Spring 2026 and is co-edited by Dimitris E. Simos, Panos M. Pardalos, Ilias S. Kotsireas, Bernhard Garn, senior researcher at SBA Research and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Salzburg and Stefan Wolfgang Pickl. Read More

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