eCrime 2016 - 11th Annual Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG)

The eleventh Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) 2016 will be held between June 1st-3rd, 2016 in Toronto, Canada.
eCrime 2016 consists of 3 days of keynote presentations, technical and practical sessions, and interactive panels. This will allow for the academic researchers, security practitioners, and law enforcement to discuss and exchange ideas, experiences and lessons learnt in all aspects of electronic crime and ways to combat it.
New to this conference is the introduction of two publication tracks to help attract research covering applied, industrial cybercrime research as well as applied and/or theoretical cybercrime academic research. To further strengthen the confidence in each track, there have been two managing chairs and committees appointed for reviewing and selecting papers for each track of the cybercrime conference.
Important Dates: (11:59pm US EDT)
Full Papers registration and submission due: January 30, 2016
Paper Notifications due: February 13, 2016
Camera ready due: March 13, 2016
Conference: Jun 1-3, 2016
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.