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, spent 3 weeks in July 2026 as a visiting researcher at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, Australia, hosted by Prof. Helge Janicke and his research group. Read More
Four members of our Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM) team – Tanja Šarčević, Yelyzaveta Klysa, Sabina Khazari, and Daryna Oliynyk – competed as team “4 braincells” in the Grand Finale of the CISPA European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship, finishing an impressive 4th place. Read More
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
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
In January, the AIAGENT4CYBER consortium gathered in Vienna for a kick-off meeting that set the strategic and collaborative foundation for the years ahead. ... Read More
At the end of January, our 1st OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup took place, featuring three excellent speaker sharing insights on LLM Security. ... Read More
Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research, recently participated in the EOSC Winter School 2026, held from January 27–29 in Nice, France. He was presented the work on standardisation of maDMPs and was also moderating a session. ... Read More
At the end of November, our colleague Daryna Oliynyk, a researcher at SBA Research and the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, was invited to speak at the European Symposium on Security and AI (ESSAI) in Rennes, France. She presented the joint paper "Attackers Can Do Better: Over- and Understated Factors of Model Stealing Attacks", co-authored with Rudolf Mayer and Andreas Rauber. ... Read More
Tanja Sarcevic, Daryna Olyinyk, and Yelyzaveta Klysa, all MLDM research group members, and Sabina Khazari participated in the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship organized by CISPA, one of Europe’s leading research centers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Congratulations to them, they won 2nd place and qualified themselves to the grand finale that will be held in St. Ingbert, Germany, in June 2026. ... Read More
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
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. ∞
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our researchers, who were recognized at the University of Vienna Faculty of Computer Science's Best-of-the-Best Awards on June 24. ∞