WACCO 2019 - First Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations

WACCO 2019 calls for all contributions aiming at providing methods, measures, metrics, and technologies or tools to quantitatively or qualitatively evaluate cyber-offenders and attackers from technical and non-technical angles. The workshop invites contributions from, but not limited to, the fields of computer science and computer security, criminology, psychology, law, and economics addressing this issue.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Empirical studies on attacker operations and communities
Novel methods to perform attacker measurements at scale across several communities
Cooperation and trust as a source of attackers’ effectiveness
Attackers’ skill set
Attackers’ operational security
Measuring the spread of false information campaigns on social media
Quantitative and qualitative methods to measure, track, and counter cybercrime
Cybercrime measurement and networks
Cybercrime policy
Economics of cybercrime
Profiling of cybercriminals
Security metric design and evaluation
Security patch measurement
Statistical exploration and prediction of security incidents
Open Source Intelligence and digital footprints