SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
We're excited to announce that Michael Pucher, a researcher at SBA Research, delivered a compelling talk titled "Here Be Dragons: Ghidra Decompiler API Adventures" at this year's BalCCon. Read More
On June 14, 2024, Matthias Eckhart attended the DCNA Young Scientists Networking Event and pitched his research on “Security-by-Design for Industrial Control Systems (ICSs).” The event was organized by the Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA) and hosted by the… Read More
Matthias Eckhart, researcher at SBA Research, has been named one of the CPS Rising Stars for 2024. Targeted at exceptional PhD students and postdoctoral researchers interested in academic careers in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the selected rising stars were invited to participate in… Read More
Together with sipgate and ISMK Stralsund, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Michael Pucher, researcher at SBA research, discovered and investigated a vulnerability in the Voice of LTE (VoLTE) stack that is broadly used within MediaTek-based smartphones. ∞
In the Mediatek modem, there is a possible system crash due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote denial of service, if a UE has connected to a rogue base station controlled by the attacker, with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. ∞