eCrime Special Announcement APWG eCrime Peer-review submission deadline extended to July 29 2025 The 2025 Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2025) examines essential factors for managing the impacts of the global cybercrime plexus to secure IT users, commercial enterprises, governments, critical infrastructures, and operational technologies. eCrime...
Fraudsters Customizing Attacks with Victims’ Home Addresses and Images, Frightening Victims with Phone Calls and Text Messages The APWG's new Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that scammers are approaching potential victims in very direct, often menacing ways, as growing numbers of fraudsters and extortionists personalize attacks...
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Phone-Based Frauds Allow Scammers to Engage with Victims More Personally The APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that phishing attacks using phone calls and text messages have grown unchecked for the past two years, shifting the cybercrime threatscape increasingly toward abuse of telephone services and infrastructure. Phone numbers used...
For the 3-month period ending January 31, 2024, Interisle Consulting Group processed a staggering 1M reports at our Cybercrime Information Center from our phishing feeds (a 19% increase over the prior quarter). These resources abetted over 500,000 phishing attacks (a 37% increase over the prior...
APWG 2024 eCrime Conference Focuses on Rolling Back Digital Chaos That's Come to Rule the Internet and Its Animating Infrastructure in the Last 20 Years This year's Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2024) in Boston explores the theme of taking back cyberspace from the criminal...
APWG Members Witnessing Troubling New Surges in Phone-Based Cybercrime CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 16, 2024 - The APWG’s Q4 2023 Phishing Activity Trends Report reveals that the APWG observed almost five million phishing attacks in 2023, making it the worst year for phishing on record. Even after a decrease...
The 2024 Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2024) examined the economic foundations, behavioral elements, technological exposures, policy aspects and other dimensions that fuel the burgeoning global, multi-billion-dollar cybercrime plexus, at its 19th annual eCrime symposium on September 24 – 26, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts,...
Winning Papers for eCrime 2023 Selected .stk-60f60ab{height:24px !important} The 2023 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime) gave a research team from the University of Twente its Best Paper award for a rigorous examination of the factors that influence the sizes of ransomware payments to...
Winning Papers for eCrime 2023 Selected .stk-60f60ab{height:24px !important} The 2023 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime) gave a research team from the University of Twente its Best Paper award for a rigorous examination of the factors that influence the sizes of ransomware payments to...