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, published a new paper titled AgCyRAG: an Agentic Knowledge Graph based RAG Framework for Automated Security Analysis. Read More
Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research and TU Vienna, published a paper in ACM Transactions on the Web titled You Shall Not Pass (Without Consent): Enforcing Data Sovereignty with Solid Pods. ... Read More
As part of an IEEE Industry Connection on Synthetic Data our colleague Rudolf Mayer, senior researcher at SBA Research, co-authored a white paper on privacy risks, metrics, and governance in synthetic data. Read More
In August, our colleagues Tanja Šarčević and Daryna Oliynyk, both researchers at SBA Research, presented their posters at the CISPA-ELLIS Summer School 2025 on Trustworthy AI: Secure and Safe Foundation Models in Saarbrücken, Germany.... Read More
The MLDM team hosted Sebastian Rodriguez Beltran as visiting researcher.
Sebastian is a PhD student under the supervision of Antti Honkela, a professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, and a leading figure in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning. ... Read More
On June 16th, SBA Research and the Security & Privacy group at University of Vienna hosted the Vienna Deep Learning Meetup (VDLM).
The event, attended by Deep Learning enthusiasts, comprised of a talk by Damian Stewart, who gave a Deep Dive into CLIP embeddings. CLIP embeddings are at the heart of many multimodal AI systems, as they map language to images. ... Read More
In 2025, the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) once again recognizes outstanding academic work in the fields of Computer Science and Business Informatics with the OCG Förderpreis and the OCG Förderpreis-FH. This year’s OCG Förderpreis goes to our research colleague Daryna Oliynyk for… Read More
Our colleague Rudolf Mayer, senior researcher at SBA Research, gave a talk at the 2025 dHealth conference organised in Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria. ... Read More
In April 2025, the paper "Attackers Can Do Better: Over- and Understated Factors of Model Stealing Attacks", authored by Daryna Oliynyk, Rudolf Mayer, and Andreas Rauber, was presented at the IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML). ... Read More
Our MLDM team, in cooperation with Research Institute – Digital Human Rights Center, lead a specialist seminar addressing the pivotal security and legal concerns associated with artificial intelligence (AI). 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. ∞