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Tag: Research Paper

Best paper award @ CAIS 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
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SBA @ ESWC 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
Andreas Ekelhart presenting his paper

SBA @ Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026

Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... Read More
SBA @ Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026

Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited

Dominique Schröder, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor of Privacy Enhancing Technologies at TU Wien published a new paper titled "Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited" which was presented at the 31st ASIACRYPT 2025 Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ... Read More
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Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp

Global Collection of User Data Was Possible Through a – Now Resolved – Privacy Vulnerability. Computer scientists from the University of Vienna and SBA Research have uncovered a significant privacy vulnerability in WhatsApp’s Contact Discovery mechanism. Exploiting this weakness, they were able to perform an unprecedented global enumeration of all… Read More
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SBA @ Ekoparty 2025

SBA Research was proud to participate in the Ekoparty Security Conference 2025, held from October 22-24 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This year, Max Günther and Philipp Frenzel represented SBA Research and the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna… Read More
SBA @ Ekoparty 2025

Manuel Leithner at ICTSS 2025

Combinatorial Testing is a highly effective black-box testing method that combines small test sets with strong fault detection capabilities. However, faced with unknown file formats or network protocols, it requires a method to extract a model of possible parameters and values to use in its test cases. At the 37th… Read More
Manuel Leithner at ICTSS 2025

Gabriel Gegenhuber @ DEF CON 33

On 10th of August, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Maximilian Günther, researcher at the University of Vienna, gave a talk on “Silent Signals: Exploiting Security and Privacy Side-Channels in End-to-End Encrypted Messengers” at the… Read More
Gabriel Gegenhuber and Maximilian Günther on DEFCON 33 Stage

Markus Maier @ LACNIC43

Our colleague Markus Maier, Researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna Research Group Security and Privacy, gave a talk on “In the Loop: An overview of Persistent Routing Loops on the IPv6 (and IPv4) internet” at the LACNIC43 conference in Sao Paulo, Brasil. ... Read More
Markus Maier on stage