SBA Research is a research center for Information Security funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.
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
SBA Research was delighted to host Dr. Fatma Nur Esirci Oral as a visiting researcher during the past three months.
During her stay, Dr. Esirci Oral worked on security-oriented test vector generation for rarely activated logic in digital circuits, a topic relevant to hardware security testing. She also prepared a state-of-the-art overview to support the next steps in this line of research. ... Read More
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
We warmly congratulate Prof. Johanna Ullrich, key researcher at SBA Research, on her appointment to the Founding Professorship in Security at IT:U. ... 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
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
LibreChat version 0.8.1-rc2 is prone to a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability due to missing restrictions of the Actions feature in the default configuration. This allows attackers to interact with arbitrary third-party HTTP services, for example the internal RAG API. ... Read More
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. ... ∞
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. ... ∞