eCrime 2025 San Diego

The selected peer-reviewed papers will be presented at the eCrime symposium along with panels and talks in General Sessions from other researchers selected from industrial and academic research centers correspondent with the APWG.
 
 Alongside this expanded topic spectrum, eCrime 2025 is also soliciting papers that speak to the following topics and issues: 
 
Economic foundations of: cybercrime cyber-physical crimes; and other abuses of IT for criminal enterprise 
 
Behavioural and psychosocial aspects of cybercrime; and cyber-physical system victimization and prevention
 
Emerging technological exposures, vulnerabilities, and risks
 
Architectural vulnerabilities (of products, operational technologies, infrastructures and cyber-physical systems) that advantage criminal actors 
 
New or improved techniques to detect and respond to cybercrime and cyber-physical crimes of all types
 
How to accurately measure and understand the health and resilience of systems, networks, infrastructures and users against cybercrime
 
Addressing challenges of cybercrime’s increasing complexity (e.g. digital infrastructures, crime-fighting/forensic techniques, and the structure of the crimes themselves)
 
Measuring and modelling of cybercrime/cyber-physical system crimes and related criminal enterprises for operational protection routines
 
Measuring and modelling of cybercrime/cyber-physical system crimes and related criminal enterprises for informing rational underwriting instrumentation developed by commercial insurers
 
Analysis and modelling of the cybercrime and abuse risk landscape 
 
Cybercrime/cyber-physical system crime payload delivery strategies and countermeasures (e.g. spam, mobile apps, social engineering, etc.)
 
Application of public policy and law for the programmatic suppression of common cybercrimes; crimes against or involving cyber-physical systems and related abuses
 
Policy and legal challenges as they relate to actually developing and sustaining anti-cybercrime practices and policies
 
Cryptocurrency crimes and related cybercrimes, and the forensic tools and techniques required to measure, prevent, and counter these crimes
 
Case studies of current cybercrime/cyber-physical system attack methods (e.g. phishing, malware, rogue antivirus programs, pharming, ransomware, crimeware, botnets, and emerging techniques)
 
Detecting and preventing abuse of internet infrastructure to neutralize cybercrimes/cyber-physical system crimes and abuses
 
Detecting and isolating cybercriminal gangs and their money laundering routines and enterprises
 
Cybercrime’s evolution in specific verticals (e.g. financial services, e-commerce, health and energy, etc.)
 
Cybercriminal cloaking techniques, and counter-cloaking tools and approaches
 
Design and evaluation of UI/UXs to neutralize fraud and enhance user security and cybercrime awareness
 
Novel methods for measuring cybercrime and related abuses for development of defensive routines and programs
 
 
Guidance for Authors
Submit papers here:  https://ecrime2025.hotcrp.com
 
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:
 
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
 
Submissions must include author names and affiliations, but should otherwise be anonymized. Authors’ own work should be referred to in the third person.
 
Papers 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 register for the event and present in person. Remote presentations delivered live and/or pre-recorded presentations will be considered in limited circumstances (e.g. where the lead author presents remotely and a co-author attends in person).
 
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. APWG eCrime understands 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 this assistance.
 
 
Call for Training Day Proposals

Are you an expert in a cybercrime research, cyber forensics or related investigation methods? Do you use a specialised resource/repository and want to show others how to use it too (or use it better)? Have you authored a new framework or modelling technique that you think more people should know about? 
 
For the first time at eCrime 2025, APWG will feature a pre-conference eCrime Training Day for researchers and industry practitioners. Trainers will have the opportunity to discuss their areas of expertise with attendees on Monday, November 3, the day before the conference begins (on 4 November). These longer sessions are aimed at transferring skills and passing the torch to a new generation of researchers and practitioners.
 
Sessions could focus on a variety of relevant topics, such as: 
 
How to collect, use, and analyse cybercrime data in investigations and/or research projects 
 
How to investigate key data repositories, such as the DNS ecosystem, for research and investigations
 
New modelling methods for cyber threats, risks, and vulnerabilities
 
How to engage with policymakers as a cyber researcher or industry expert
 
An intro session for cybercrime researchers/investigators focusing on relevant security frameworks, standards, and best practices 
 
Training session proposals should include:
Training session title
Trainer/artisan biographic description 3-6 sentences of direct relevance to topic space covered in the proposed session
Topic description of 3-6 sentences describing what the training session will cover and competencies it will cultivate
Audience: eCrime prefers sessions that any eCrime attendee could benefit from; however, please note if your session would especially benefit a specific audience (e.g. threat intelligence researcher)
Prerequisites: eCrime prefers training sessions that do not require any prerequisites; however, we may make an exception for a topic of particular merit or interest  
Session length minimum of 1 hour, maximum of 3 hours. Please also indicate whether your session length is strict (i.e. if we receive many session proposals, or if a trainer drops out, would you be able to make your session longer or shorter)
 
Include all the information above in a Word or PDF document and upload to https://ecrime2025.hotcrp.com  and title your submission with “PROPOSAL” followed by your session title (for example “PROPOSAL Using the OWASP model in SMEs”.)
 
A maximum of 4 training sessions will be offered. 
 
Important Dates (eCrime Training Day proposals)
 
Deadline for Proposals: June 15^st 2025
 
Notification of Acceptance: July 15^st 2025
 
Anticipated time for each training session: 1 to 3 hours, with a preference for longer, in-depth sessions. If there is sufficient interest, we will consider running parallel sessions.