The Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime) examines the economic foundations, behavioral elements and other keystone aspects that animate and fuel the burgeoning global, multi-billion-dollar cybercrime plexus at its 16th annual symposium on Dec 1-3.
Twelve peer-reviewed papers have been officially accepted for APWG eCrime. Those papers will be included in the conference’s presentations along with numbers of panels and talks from other correspondent researchers from industrial and academic research centers affiliated with the APWG.
The program segments include discussions of DNS abuse aspects of cybercrime; technical, data logistics and data forensics dimensions; behavioral considerations; and economic facets of cybercrime.
The conference notes page and registration link is here: https://apwg.org/ecrime2021/
Students requiring discounts should contact symposium managers at apwg_events@apwg.org
The symposium’s proceedings are in English.
Please contact the APWG eCrime program team for details via email at apwg_events@apwg.org.
APWG Members can register for no charge using a coupon code during the registration process. The coupon code will be distributed via the members discussion list.
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11:00
11:15
Dr. Alice Hutchings, General Chair & Dr. Guy-Vincent Jourdan, Program Chair
Time
Title
Authors
11:45
A qualitative mapping of Darkweb marketplaces
Dimitrios Georgoulias, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Morten Falch, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Aalborg University, Denmark
12:15
Toad in the Hole or Mapo Tofu? Comparative Analysis of English and Chinese Darknet Markets
Yichao Wang, Budi Arief, and Julio Hernandez-Castro (University of Kent)
12:45
Break
13:00
Collegiate Social Engineering Capture the Flag Competition
Aunshul Rege and Rachel Bleiman, Temple University
13:30
Understanding Risk and Risk Perceptions of Cybercrime in Underground Forums
Maria Bada, Queen Mary University;
Yi Ting Chua, University of Alabama
14:00
Cyber Culture Eats Cyber Strategy for Breakfast with a Side of Policy: Architecting a Culture of Cyberawareness at Scale
Jacqueline Jayne, KnowBe4;
Matt Sorell, University of Adelaide
14:30
Closing Announcements
11:00
Welcome
Time
Title
Authors
11:15
The Long Shadow of ICANN’s Temporary Specification – Three Years Out
Jesse Sowell, Texas A&M / Bush School of Government and Public Service; Laurin Weissinger, Tufts University / The Fletcher School
11:45
Brand Defense Case Study: Lessons learned from the IRS EIP Phishing Campaign
Mark Henderson, IRS
12:15
When Diversity Meets Hostility: A Study of Domain Squatting Abuse in Online Banking
Neeraj Kumar, TCS Research / Tata Consultancy Services;
Sukhada Ghewari and Harshal Tupsamudre, Unaffiliated;
Manish Shukla and Sachin Lodha, TCS Research / Tata Consultancy Services
12:45
Break
Time
Title
Authors
13:00
Bot Shops and Info Stealers – Exploring the Dark Web’s Newest Frontier
Max Aliapoulios, PhD, New York University
Ian Gray, Flashpoint / Fordham University
Bryan Oliver, Flashpoint
Austin Turecek, Flashpoint
13:30
Evolution of IoT Linux Malware: A MITRE ATT&CK TTP Based Approach
Veronica Chierzi, Trend Micro Research / University of Trento;
Fernando Mercês, Trend Micro Research
14:00
Evaluating the effectiveness of Phishing Reports on Twitter
Sayak Saha Roy and Unique Karanjit, The University of Texas at Arlington;
Shirin Nilizadeh, University of Texas Arlington
14:30
Closing Announcements
11:00
Welcome
Time
Title
Authors
11:15
Security and Privacy Risks of Numbering Recycling at Mobile Carriers in the United States
Title
Authors
Kevin Lee and Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University
Time
Title
Authors
11:45
Tokyo, Denver, Helsinki, Lisbon or the Professor? A Framework for Understanding Cybercriminal Roles in Darknet Markets
Claudia Peersman (University of Bristol);
Denny Pencheva (University College London);
Awais Rashid (University of Bristol)
12:15
The shady economy: Understanding the difference in trading activity from underground forums in different layers of the Web
Adrian Bermudez-Villalva (University College London);
Gianluca Stringhini (Boston University)
12:45
Break
13:00
The role of self-control, need for cognition, impulsivity and viewing time in deception detection using a realistic e-mail phishing task
Jacqui Taylor, Bournemouth University;
Christina Rajagulasingam, Western Sydney University
13:30
Out of the Dark: The Effect of Law Enforcement Actions on Cryptocurrency Market Prices
Svetlana Abramova and Rainer Boehme (University of Innsbruck)
14:00
On Cryptocurrency AML Advancements Worldwide
David Jevans, APWG
Closing Announcements
APWG eCrime’s yield of cutting-edge papers this year was curated by a new management team for the 2021 edition of the symposium.
For APWG eCrime 2021, the University of Cambridge’s Alice Hutchings, a University Lecturer in the Security Group at the Computer Laboratory, a Fellow of King’s College and Deputy-Director of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, served as the General Chair of the symposium.
University of Ottawa’s Guy-Vincent Jourdan, a full professor and program coordinator for cybersecurity at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and an inaugurating research fellow of the APWG Crypto Currency Working Group, assisted in the development of the symposium this year as Program Chair.
Laurin Weissinger, lecturer at The Fletcher School of Tufts University, and Cybersecurity Fellow of the Cyber Initiative at Yale Law School, served as this year’s Publications Chair for the symposium.