
The Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (APWG eCrime) examines the economic foundations, behavioral elements and other keystone aspects that animate and fuel the burgeoning global, multi-billion-dollar cybercrime plexus at its 16th annual symposium on Dec 1-3.
Twelve peer-reviewed papers have been officially accepted for APWG eCrime. Those papers will be included in the conference’s presentations along with numbers of panels and talks from other correspondent researchers from industrial and academic research centers affiliated with the APWG.
The program segments include discussions of DNS abuse aspects of cybercrime; technical, data logistics and data forensics dimensions; behavioral considerations; and economic facets of cybercrime.
The conference notes page and registration link is here: https://apwg.org/ecrime2021/
Students requiring discounts should contact symposium managers at apwg_events@apwg.org
The symposium’s proceedings are in English.
Please contact the APWG eCrime program team for details via email at apwg_events@apwg.org.
APWG Members can register for no charge using a coupon code during the registration process. The coupon code will be distributed via the members discussion list.
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Start:
December 1 @ 11:00 –15:00 EST
End:
December 3 @11:00 – 15:00 EST
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eCrime 2021 Sessions
Wednesday, December 1st
| Time | Title | Authors |
| 11:00 | Welcome | |
| 11:15 | OPENING REMARKS FROM THE SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS’ DESKS | Dr. Alice Hutchings, General Chair & Dr. Guy-Vincent Jourdan, Program Chair |
BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS OF THE CYBERCRIME EXPERIENCE
| Time | Title | Authors |
| 11:45 | BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS OF THE CYBERCRIME EXPERIENCE | Dimitrios Georgoulias, Jens Myrup Pedersen, Morten Falch, and Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, Aalborg University, Denmark |
| 12:15 | Toad in the Hole or Mapo Tofu? Comparative Analysis of English and Chinese Darknet Markets | Yichao Wang, Budi Arief, and Julio Hernandez-Castro (University of Kent) |
Break | ||
13:30 | Understanding Risk and Risk Perceptions of Cybercrime in Underground Forums | Maria Bada, Queen Mary University; Yi Ting Chua, University of Alabama |
14:00 | Cyber Culture Eats Cyber Strategy for Breakfast with a Side of Policy: Architecting a Culture of Cyberawareness at Scale | Jacqueline Jayne, KnowBe4; Matt Sorell, University of Adelaide |
14:30 | Closing Announcements | |
Thurday, december 2nd
| TIME | Title | Authors |
| 11:00 | Welcome | |
11:15 | The Long Shadow of ICANN’s Temporary Specification – Three Years Out | Jesse Sowell, Texas A&M / Bush School of Government and Public Service; Laurin Weissinger, Tufts University / The Fletcher School |
11:45 | Brand Defense Case Study: Lessons learned from the IRS EIP Phishing Campaign | Mark Henderson, IRS |
12:15 | When Diversity Meets Hostility: A Study of Domain Squatting Abuse in Online Banking | Neeraj Kumar, TCS Research / Tata Consultancy Services; Sukhada Ghewari and Harshal Tupsamudre, Unaffiliated; Manish Shukla and Sachin Lodha, TCS Research / Tata Consultancy Services |
| 12:45 | Break | |
TECH, DATA LOGISTICS AND DATA FORENSICS
| Time | Title | Authors |
| 13:00 | Bot Shops and Info Stealers – Exploring the Dark Web’s Newest Frontie | Max Aliapoulios, PhD, New York University Ian Gray, Flashpoint / Fordham University Bryan Oliver, Flashpoint Austin Turecek, Flashpoint |
| 13:30 | Evolution of IoT Linux Malware: A MITRE ATT&CK TTP Based Approach | Veronica Chierzi, Trend Micro Research / University of Trento; Fernando Mercês, Trend Micro Research |
| 14:00 | Evaluating the effectiveness of Phishing Reports on Twitter | Sayak Saha Roy and Unique Karanjit, The University of Texas at Arlington; Shirin Nilizadeh, University of Texas Arlington |
| 14:30 | Closing Announcements | |
Friday, December 3nd
11:00 | Welcome |
TECH, DATA LOGISTICS AND DATA
| Time | Title | Authors |
| 11:45 | Security and Privacy Risks of Numbering Recycling at Mobile Carriers in the United States | Kevin Lee and Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University |
ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF CYBERCRIME
| Time | Title | Authors |
| 11:45 | Tokyo, Denver, Helsinki, Lisbon or the Professor? A Framework for Understanding Cybercriminal Roles in Darknet Markets
| Claudia Peersman (University of Bristol); Denny Pencheva (University College London); Awais Rashid (University of Bristol) |
| 12:15 | The shady economy: Understanding the difference in trading activity from underground forums in different layers of the Web
| Adrian Bermudez-Villalva (University College London); Gianluca Stringhini (Boston University) |
| 12:45 | Break | |
| 13:00 | The role of self-control, need for cognition, impulsivity and viewing time in deception detection using a realistic e-mail phishing task | Jacqui Taylor, Bournemouth University; Christina Rajagulasingam, Western Sydney University |
| 13:30 | Out of the Dark: The Effect of Law Enforcement Actions on Cryptocurrency Market Prices | Svetlana Abramova and Rainer Boehme (University of Innsbruck) |
| 14:00 | On Cryptocurrency AML Advancements Worldwide | David Jevans, APWG |
Closing Announcements | ||



