IN APWG’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR, ECRIME 2023 EXAMINES THE EVOLUTION OF CYBERCRIME IN AN EPOCH OF AI CRIME & ACCELERATING COMPLEXITY
Symposium on Electronic Crime Research 2023
November 15 – November 17
The Symposium on Electronic Crime Research 2023 (eCrime 2023) examines: the emerging tactics, techniques and procedures of today’s threatscape; the economic foundations; behavioral elements; and other keystone aspects that fuel the burgeoning global, multi-billion-dollar cybercrime plexus at its 18th annual symposium on Nov 15 – Nov 17, 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.
APWG will be using this, its 20th anniversary symposium, to map the evolution of cybercrime since 2003 when the first branded phishing campaigns hit bank customers’ email boxes – and to isolate inflection points that present opportunities for programmatic and, hopefully, dispositive interventions. Leading those discussions will be some of the most important authorities in the field of cybercrime suppression and intervention from industry, academia, law enforcement and the public sector. The eCrime 2023 agenda follows, below:
Students requiring discounts should contact symposium managers at apwg_events@apwg.org.
The symposium’s proceedings are in English.
Please contact the APWG eCrime organizers for details via email at apwg_events@apwg.org.
APWG Members can register for no charge using a discount code. Discount codes are also available for university researchers, speakers, some government personnel and law enforcement personnel, Coupon codes will be distributed to APWG members via the members discussion list or contact the event organizers.
This year’s eCrime program marks 20 years since APWG’s founding. Originally organized by a coalition of banks, technology companies and US federal police agencies investigating the then new threat of phishing, APWG has since evolved into a coalition of cybercrime experts spanning the globe from a number of industries, research disciplines and public-sector entities — from national governments to multilateral treaty organizations.
Celebrating APWG’s 20th Anniversary
At eCrime 2023, an inter-disciplinary, cross-sector cohort of experts will peer into the future of the global confrontation with cybercrime to map the global response agenda for the decades ahead. Our delegation will consider how cybercrime complexity and AI will influence stake-holders’ strategic direction and define broader imperatives. We will look toward a future in which those synthetic intelligences will be put to use for benefit of civil society, of course, but we will also have to ask, in the end, under whose aegis will these intelligences operate? The good guys’? The bad guys’? Or their own?
AGENDA FOR eCRIME 2023
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
** Times below are CET
eCrime 2023 Program Sessions and the Confirmed Speakers:
Forging the Responsive Counter-Cybercrime Ecosystem
10 AM
Luis Corrons, Gen Digital — How Generative AI Mutates Phishing and Scam Threats – and What Can Be Done About It
Shawn Loveland, Resecurity — Cutting the Cybergangs Off at the (Evolutionary) Pass
Paul Vixie, Distinguished Engineer, AWS Security — Going Dark: Catastrophic security and privacy losses due to loss of visibility by managed private networks
Brad Wardman, Booz Allen Hamilton — Working Toward Data-Driven Decisions: Reframing applied research to update counter-phishing programs to animate ecosystem-level responses to cybercrime
TBA: Peer-reviewed papers posted after program committee consideration and acceptance on October 6
Emerging Attack Schemes at the Cybercrime Frontier
Righard Zwienenberg, ESET / Eddy Willems, G DATA — Let’s Chat about Gross Public Text generation
Gavin Reid & Joao Santos, Human Security — Deconstructing Badbox
Josep Albors, Ontinet / Righard Zwienenberg, ESET — Code Blue: Energy
TBA: Peer-reviewed papers posted after program committee consideration and acceptance on October 6
Challenges to a Global Response to Cybercrime Posed by Complexity of Attack & Obfuscation Architectures
Dr. Laurin Weissinger, Fresenius Digital Technology / Department of Computer Science, Tufts University / Yale Law School
PANEL: Challenges to a Global Response to Cybercrime Posed by Complexity of Attack & Obfuscation Architectures
Panelists:
Miranda Bruce, University of Oxford
Richard Clayton, University of Cambridge
TBA post confirmation
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16
** Times in CET
Keynote: Chema Alonso, Telefonica
10 AM
Chema Alonso, Telefonica — eCrime 2023 Symposium Keynote
Infrastructure Policy Omissions / Collisions & Litigation as a Policy Instrument
Greg Aaron, Illumintel — DNS and infrastructure policy failures of the last 20 years and what remains to be fixed
Dean Marks, Coalition for Online Accountability — Litigation strategies to discipline platform providers employed by stakeholders in US and Europe
Bobby Flaim, Facebook, Head of Strategic Programs, IP & DNS Legal Team, Meta, Meta v. Freenom: Consequences of Litigation in Securing the DNS From Resolving Phishing Lures
TBA: Peer-reviewed papers posted after program committee consideration and acceptance on October 6
Human Factors in Cybercrime Proliferation & Suppression
Gary Warner, University of Alabama at Birmingham / Dark Tower — Who Will Stand for the (Cyber) Defenseless?
Dr. L. Jean Camp, Indiana University — Baselining Human Resilience at National Scale
Dr. Sanchari Das, University of Denver
PANEL: Empowering Users Through Research-Based Awareness Instrumentation
Panelists:
Dr. Zinaida Benenson, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Aimee Larsen-Kirkpatrick, STOP. THINK. CONNECT. Messaging Convention
Samaila Atsen Bako, Cyber Security Experts Association of Nigeria
Dr. Abbie Maroño,Social-Engineer, LLC
Anil Raghuvanshi, ChildSafe.Net
Pablo Lopez Aguilar, Global Cyber Alliance
Anil Raghuvanshi, ChildSafe.Net — Generative AI and Child Online Protection
TBA: Peer-reviewed papers posted after program committee consideration and acceptance on October 6
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17
** Times in CET
Law Enforcement in Cybercrime’s Third Decade as a Growth Industry
Alexander Seger, Executive Secretary of the Cybercrime Convention, Council of Europe — International frameworks for cooperation on cybercrime: Budapest Convention v. UN treaty
Pedro Janices, Ministerio de Seguridad — Argentina’s Cybercrime-Fighting Approach: Prosecution – and Prevention
Masayuki Nakajima, National Police Agency Japan — Fighting Fake Stores in Japan (with a review of important aspects of NPA’s cybercrime fighting efforts in Japan.)
TBA: Peer-reviewed papers posted after program committee consideration and acceptance on October 6
APWG eCrime eXchange Members’ Review
Pat Cain, APWG — Enhancing the Operational Impact of the APWG eCrime eXchange
Marketplaces & Economics of Cybercrime
TBA: Peer-reviewed papers posted after program committee consideration and acceptance on October 6
Call For Research Papers
Cybercrime’s Evolution in an Epoch of AI Crime and Accelerating Complexity
APWG celebrates its 20th anniversary by looking ahead to the coming decades that await the larger community of interveners, investigators, policy makers and stakeholders from private and public sectors as they face the increasing challenges posed by AI technologies and the accelerating complexity of the cybercrimes themselves.
The APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime) is issuing its Call for Papers to announce its 18th annual edition of its peer-reviewed publishing conference – and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the APWG’s founding. APWG eCrime 2023 will be a three-day event hosted in Barcelona by Agència de Ciberseguretat de Catalunya on November 15th to 17th, 2023.
APWG eCrime 2023 combines a peer-reviewed conference with general sessions open to industry, government, law enforcement and multilateral organizations, featuring keynote presentations from global thought-leaders, technical and practical sessions, and interactive panels. The objective of eCrime is to foster practical collaboration and the exchange of catalytic ideas by academic researchers, industry security practitioners, and law enforcement professionals in the global struggle against cybercrime.
APWG eCrime 2023 will look ahead at the future of cybercrime in this uniquely perilous hour, when powerful, accessible AI technologies are cheap and ubiquitous and the compound complexities of technologies, (private and public) policies and network topologies make cybercrime fighting more difficult than ever – with no promise of relief on the horizon.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Full Papers registration and submission due: September 10
Notification of acceptance: October 6
Conference: Nov 15-17
Camera-ready paper due: December 15
Papers´ topics may include but are not limited to:
- Artificial Intelligence as a criminal co-conspirator – and as a defensive collaborator
- Addressing challenges of cybercrime’s increasing complexity (e.g. digital infrastructures, crime-fighting/forensic techniques, and the structure of the crimes themselves)
- Detecting and/or mitigating eCrime (e.g. online fraud, malware, phishing, ransomware, etc.)
- Behavioral and psychosocial aspects of cybercrime victimization – and prevention
- Measuring and modeling of cybercrime
- Economics of cybercrime
- Cybercrime payload delivery strategies and countermeasures (e.g. spam, mobile apps, social engineering, etc.)
- Public Policy and Law for cybercrime
- Cryptocurrency and related cybercrimes – and forensic tools and techniques for cryptocurrency related cybercrimes
- Case studies of current cybercrime attack methods, (e.g. phishing, malware, rogue antivirus programs, pharming, crimeware, botnets, and emerging techniques)
- Detecting/preventing abuse of internet infrastructure to neutralize cybercrimes
- Detecting/isolating cybercrime gangs’ and attendant money laundering enterprises
- Cybercrime’s evolution in specific verticals: (e.g. financial services, e-commerce, health, energy & supplies)
- Cybercriminal cloaking techniques – and counter-cloaking tools and approaches
- Design and evaluation of UI/UXs to neutralize fraud and enhance user security
AUTHORS’ GUIDANCE
eCrime has adopted the IEEE publication format. Submissions should be in English, in PDF format with all fonts embedded, and formatted using the IEEE conference template, which can be found at:
Submissions should be anonymised, excluding author names, affiliations and acknowledgments. Authors’ own work should be referred to in the third person.
Paper should not exceed 12 letter-sized pages, excluding the bibliography and appendices.
Committee members are not required to read appendices, so ensure that the main paper is intelligible without them.
Submitted papers that do not adhere to all the above guidelines may be rejected without consideration of their merits.
Authors of accepted papers must present them and register at the event.
For paper submissions use the New Submission option at: https://ecrime2023papers.hotcrp.com/
Authors will be asked to indicate whether they would like their submissions to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award. Any paper co-authored by a full-time student is eligible for this award.
Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. We understand that some authors may face difficulties in obtaining funding to attend the conference. Therefore, a limited number of stipends are available for those who are unable to secure funding. Students who will present their accepted papers themselves will be given priority in receiving such assistance.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Publication Chair Moury Bidgoli
(Accenture)
Program Chair Laurin Weissinger
(Yale University)
General Chair Guy-Vincent Jourdan
(University of Ottawa)
Event Sponsors
Featured Speakers
Paul Vixie
VP and Distinguished Engineer, AWS Security / Director at SIE Europe U.G.
Chema Alonso
Chief Digital Officer, Telefonica.
Dr. L. Jean Camp
Professor, Indiana University
Dean Marks
Director Emeritus and Legal Counsel, Coalition for Online Accountability (“COA”)
View All Confirmed Speakers Here
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
| Committee Member | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Adam Oest | PayPal |
| Alice Hutchings | University of Cambridge |
| Benoit Dupont | Universite de Montreal |
| Elreann Leverett | Concinnity Risks |
| Georgia Osborn | Oxford Information Labs |
| Guy Jourdan | University of Ottawa |
| Laurin B Weissinger | Yale University / Tufts University |
| Moury Bidgoli | Accenture |
| Paria Shirani | University of Ottawa |
| Periwinkle Doerfler | |
| Peter Cassidy | APWG |
| Suryadipta Majumdar | Concordia University |
| Marc Rivero | La Salle Barcelona University / Kaspersky Lab |
| Zhibo “Eric” Sun | Drexel University |
| Arghya Mukherjee | University of Tulsa |
| Constantinos Patsakis | University of Piraeus |
| Furkan Alaca | Queens University |
| Jan-Willem Bullee | University of Twente |
| Luca Allodi | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Paria Shirani | University of Ottawa |
| Rebekah Overdorf | UNIL |
| Sergio Pastrana | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Timothy Barron | Yale University |
Call For General Session Talks/Panel Proposals
APWG eCrime 2023 will look ahead at the future of cybercrime in this uniquely perilous hour, when powerful, accessible AI technologies are cheap and ubiquitous and the compound complexities of technologies, (private and public) policies and network topologies make cybercrime fighting more difficult than ever – with no promise of relief on the horizon.
APWG is accepting Session and Panel proposals to complement the Research Papers and complete the eCrime Agenda.
Session and Panel proposals´ topics may include but are not limited to:
- Artificial Intelligence as criminal co-conspirator – and as defensive collaborator
- Addressing challenges of cybercrime’s increasing complexity (e.g. digital infrastructures, crime-fighting/forensic techniques, and the structure of the crimes themselves)
- Detecting and/or mitigating eCrime (e.g. online fraud, malware, phishing, ransomware, etc.)
- Behavioral and psychosocial aspects of cybercrime victimization – and prevention
- Measuring and modeling of cybercrime
- Economics of cybercrime
- Cybercrime payload delivery strategies and countermeasures (e.g. spam, mobile apps, social engineering, etc.)
- Public Policy and Law for cybercrime
- Cryptocurrency and related cybercrimes – and forensic tools and techniques for cryptocurrency related cybercrimes
- Case studies of current cybercrime attack methods, (e.g. phishing, malware, rogue antivirus programs, pharming, crimeware, botnets, and emerging techniques)
- Detecting/preventing abuse of internet infrastructure to neutralize cybercrimes
- Detecting/isolating cybercrime gangs’ and attendant money laundering enterprises
- Cybercrime’s evolution in specific verticals: (e.g. financial services, e-commerce, health, energy & supplies)
- Cybercriminal cloaking techniques – and counter-cloaking tools and approaches
- Design and evaluation of UI/UXs to neutralize fraud and enhance user security
To Submit a session or panel proposal
For consideration please submit a one page abstract abstract to apwg_events@apwg.org with the subject line “eCrime 2023 Session/Panel Proposal” Include speaker(s) name, affiliation and contact details with your submission. Sample slides or other supporting material are welcome.