SBA Research
Floragasse 7 – 5th floor, 1040 Vienna
SBA Research
SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
Upcoming Events:
SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
25.04.2026
SHECURITY – Info Session: Overview of ISACA Certifications (with a Focus on Security)
28.04.2026
European Resilience Summit Vienna 2026
12.05.2026
Recent News:
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.
Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research, gave a talk titled “Fraktale Aktivierungsfunktionen in neuronalen Netzen” at the Social Artificial Intelligence Night (SAINT) 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.
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.
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 Informatics.
On March 31, our 2nd OWASP Chapter Vienna Meetup took place, featuring three excellent speaker sharing insights on OT-Security and a bit more.
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.
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.
We extend our warmest congratulations to our key researcher Laura Kovács on her election as a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), one of Austria's most prestigious scientific institutions. ...
SBA Research was delighted to welcome FFG Managing Director Karin Tausz and Head of Division Structural Programmes Silvia Laimgruber to the SBA-K1 NGC COMET Center in Vienna. ...
Upcoming events @ SBA
SHECURITY – Hackerinnen Training
25.04.2026
SHECURITY – Info Session: Overview of ISACA Certifications (with a Focus on Security)
28.04.2026
European Resilience Summit Vienna 2026
12.05.2026
SBA Research at a glance
FFG Leadership Visits SBA Research: Karin Tausz and Silvia Laimgruber Explored Our COMET Center
SBA Research was delighted to welcome FFG Managing Director Karin Tausz and Head of Division Structural Programmes Silvia Laimgruber to the SBA-K1 NGC COMET Center in Vienna. ...
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. ...
Congratulations! MLDM colleagues qualified for the European Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon Championship Finale
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. ...
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