CUING 2017 - First International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUING 2017)

The First International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding
(CUING 2017) to be held in conjunction with the 12th International
Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2017 –
http://www.ares-conference.eu)
August 29 - September 1, 2017, Reggio Calabria, Italy
CUING website:
https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/workshop...
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline May 14, 2017
Author Notification June 6, 2017
Proceedings Version June 20, 2017
Conference August 29 - September 1, 2017
OVERVIEW
With the constant rise of the number of Internet users, available
bandwidth and an increasing number of services shifting into the
connected world, criminals are increasingly active in the virtual world.
With improving defensive methods cybercriminals have to utilize more and
more sophisticated ways to perform their malicious activities. While
protecting the privacy of users, many technologies used in current
malware and network attacks have been abused in order to allow criminals
to carry out their activities undetected.
The aim of the First International Workshop on Criminal Use of
Information Hiding (CUIng) is to bring together researchers,
practitioners, law enforcement representatives, and security
professionals in the area of analysis of information hiding (e.g.
steganography, covert channels), obfuscation techniques and underground
networks (darknets) in order to present novel research regarding the use
of data and communication hiding methods in criminal environments and
discuss ideas for fighting misuse of privacy enhancing technologies.
TOPICS OF INTEREST COMPRISE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- Novel countermeasures against information hiding techniques:
detection, prevention, limitation
- Evasion, obfuscation and anti-forensics techniques used by cybercriminals
- Hiding covert communication within network attacks e.g. DDoS, SPAM, etc.
- Abusing legitimate social media services for masking criminal activities
- Abusing legitimate cloud-based services for masking criminal activities
- Methods for botnet detection and mitigation from CUIng perspective
- Large scale coordinated actions by LEAs from CUIng perspective
- Studies regarding the use of information hiding in cybercrime
- Traffic type obfuscation techniques e.g. traffic morphing
- Impersonation of one cybercriminals groups by the other
- Aspects and methods for sharing strategic intelligence
- Masking network attacks with another types of threats
- Future scenarios in cybercrime from CUIng perspective
- Underground marketplaces and their business models
- Legal and technical aspects of Darknet research
- Local, air-gapped, and network covert channels
- Analysis of cybercrime cases related to CUIng
- New steganographic & steganalysis methods
- Cybercrime and CPS from CUIng perspective
- Botnet analysis from CUIng perspective
- Banking Trojans from CUIng perspective
- Analysis of underground environments
- IoT-botnets from CUIng perspective
- Information hiding techniques
- Privacy enhancing techniques
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Philipp Amann (Chair)
Europol, European Cybercrime Centre, The Netherlands
Philipp.Amann-AT-europol.europa.eu
Jart Armin (Chair)
CyberDefcon, The Netherlands
jart-AT-cyberdefcon.com
Wojciech Mazurczyk (Chair)
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
wmazurczyk-AT-tele.pw.edu.pl
Angelo Consoli (Chair)
Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI),
Switzerland
angelo.consoli-AT-supsi.ch
Peter Kieseberg (Chair)
SBA Research, Austria
pkieseberg-AT-sba-research.org
Joerg Keller (Chair)
FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Joerg.Keller-AT-fernuni-hagen.de
SUBMISSION
The submission guidelines valid for the CUING workshop are the same as
for the ARES conference. They can be found
https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/conferen....
Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at
least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the
conference.
CONTACT
In case of questions, please feel free to contact us via info-AT-cuing.org.