2016 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)

Academic Track

Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):

• Economics of online crime
  • Measurement studies of underground economies
  • Models of e-crime
  • Return on investment of various types of crime such as phishing, advanced fee fraud, running a botnet, etc…
• Uncovering and disrupting online criminal collaboration and gangs
• Security-related risk assessments
  • The risks and yields of attacks
  • Effectiveness of countermeasures
  • Metrics standards
  • Conventions in the establishment of tests of efficacy
• Attack delivery strategies and countermeasures
  • Spam
  • DNS
  • Mobile Apps
  • Social engineering
  • Instant messaging
  • Web browser search manipulation
• Malware
  • Detection
  • Identification of malware families
  • Polymorphic malware detection
  • Mobile malware
  • Techniques to circumvent detection and sandboxes
• Security assessments of the mobile devices
  • Mobile App stores and ecosystems
  • Mobile App privacy
  • Risk prevention issues
• Financial infrastructure of e-crime
  • Criminal payment processing options
  • Money laundering strategies
  • Use of crypto-currencies
  • Underground marketplaces
• Technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of fraud and fraud prevention

Industrial Track

Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):

• Case studies of current attack methods
  • System and network intrusions
  • Phishing
  • Malware (rogue antivirus, botnets, ransomware, etc…)
  • Spam
  • Pharming
  • Crimeware toolkits
  • Emerging threats to mobile devices
• Open source intelligence
  • Data collection and correlation
  • Strategies and tools
• Case studies of online advertising fraud
  • Click fraud
  • Malvertising
  • Cookie stuffing
  • Affiliate fraud
• Case studies of large-scale take-downs
  • Coordinated botnet disruption
  • Phishing takedown
  • Bullet proof hosting services
• Economics of online crime
  • Measurement studies of underground economies
  • Models of e-crime
  • Return on investment of various types of crime such as phishing, advanced fee fraud, running a botnet, etc…
• Uncovering and disrupting online criminal collaboration and gangs
• Longitudinal study of eCrime related activities and their evolutions
• Security assessments of the mobile devices
  • Mobile App stores and ecosystems
  • Mobile malware
  • Mobile App privacy
  • Risk prevention issues
• Security-related risk assessments
  • The risks and yields of attacks
  • Effectiveness of countermeasures
  • Metrics standards
  • Conventions in the establishment of tests of efficacy

Accepted papers will be published in proceedings with IEEE. In addition, cash awards will be given for the best paper overall and the best student co-authored paper. A limited number of cash travel awards will also be made to student authors of papers and posters.