APWG.EU Tech 2023

APWG.EU Technical Summit and Researchers Sync-Up Examines Cybercrime Solutions and Builds Bridges of Cooperation Across the Globe.

APWG.EU Technical Summit and Researchers Sync-Up 2023  (Tech 2023) will present state-of-the-art research into cybercrime investigations, forensic techniques and infrastructure defense against cyber-attacks and manipulation. The Summit will feature innovations in cryptocurrency cybercrime tools and response approaches; research into the technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of fraud and fraud prevention; case studies into new and emerging cybercrime attack methods; and the design and evaluation of fraud-resistant user interfaces.

Tech 2023 will look into the many new and emerging challenges facing cybersecurity, the most common and predictable cyberthreats, and incident responses at any scale. Tech 2023 presenters and delegates will review the development of response paradigms and resources for counter-cybercrime managers and forensic professionals in both the private and public sectors. As always, the presenters will look out for opportunities for building bridges of cooperation and collaboration.

Presenters will review case studies of national and regional economies that have come under attack, and illustrate some examples of successful trans-national forensic investigation cooperation. At the same time, Tech 2023 will explore possible models for consultation and collaboration against eCrime, and examine the available resources for cybercrime response and forensic enterprises in general.

APWG.EU Technical Summit and Researchers Sync-Up 2023 will take place in Dublin, Ireland, June 21 & 22, 2023.

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Students, Researchers and Speakers receive complimentary registration for this event.  Contact apwg_events@apwg.org for a discount code.
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Networking Ice-Breaker

Registered attendees are invited to join us Tuesday evening June 20 at Oscars Cafe Bar between 18:30-21:30.  Meet the APWG.EU staff, have a drink or bite to eat, catch-up with old cybercrime fighting friends and make some new ones.

6 Smithfield Square | Dublin 7
Tuesday Evening 18:30 – 21:30

	Wednesday, 21 June			Thursday, 22 June
08:30-9:30	Welcome coffee & Registration		09:00-09:30	Welcome coffee & Registration
09:30-09:35	Opening Remarks Zoriana Dmytryshyna (APWG.eu)		09:30-09:35	Opening Remarks Christina Thorpe bio (TUD) Foy Shiver (APWG)
09:35-10:10	Keynote: Chris Gibson bio Executive Director (FIRST) Threat Intel Coalition		09:35-10:10	Keynote: Pr. Kevin Curran bio (Ulster University) The Latest Breakthroughs in Cybersecurity
10:10-10:40	How International police cooperation can make a difference Jorge Rosal-Cosano bio (EUROPOL)		10:10-11:00	Researchers Chalk-Talk: Future of Cybercrime Research Moderator: Dave Jevans bio (APWG/Mastercard) Michael O´Callaghan bio (UCD) Stephen Cobb bio Bernard Haslhofer bio (Complexity Science Hub Vienna) Jordi Guijarro bio i2Cat
10:40-11:10	Never negotiate with criminals! Insights about ransomware tactics used with victims in the negotiations Marc Rivero bio (Kaspersky)		11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:10-11:40	Coffee break		11:30-12:00	APWG.EU Strategic Direction and Challenges in 2023 Dave Jevans bio (APWG/Mastercard)
	Cybercrime identification and prosecution		12:00-12:20	LAZARUS Project: Update on Horizon Europe funded work Adriana Freitas bio APWG.EU
11:40-12:10	Uncovering Case Networks: Insights Gained from Prosecuting Cybercrime Cases Bernard Haslhofer bio (Complexity Science Hub Vienna)		12:20-12:40	APWG eCrime Exchange Development Update Pat Cain (APWG)
12:10-12:40	Cyber scam as the new paradigm of criminal activity Javier Moyá and Alberto Rodríguez Barcelona Cybercrime Section (Spanish National Police)		12:40-13:10	Investigating Phishing Attacks using the Registration Data Access Protocol Hauke Jan Lübbers bio (CSIS Security Group)
12:40-13:00	Tackling Phishing: a CSIRT Perspective Cormac O’Reilly bio (NCSC Ireland)		13:10-14:00	Lunch
13:00-14:00	Lunch			Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
14:00-14:45	Panel: Private-public collaboration in fight against cybercrime Moderator: Mike Dewar bio (Mastercard) Stewart Garrick bio (Shadowserver) José María Legido bio (GMV) Shaun Durkan bio (Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau)		14:00-14:40	Cryptocurrency investigations Iggy Azad bio (Coinbase)
	Research papers: Threats to people identity and health		14:40-15:10	Fraud and Crypto Asset Investments, Criminal Tactics & Recovery Options Scott Pounder bio (CRYSTAL Blockchain Analytics)
14:45-15:15	Cybercrime as public health crisis: deep harms but big opportunities Stephen Cobb bio			Financial crimes detection
15:15-15:45	Coffee break		15:10-15:40	Two sides of the same crime: fraud and money mules Mike Dewar bio (Mastercard)
15:45-16:15	Remote Clipboard Data In-Memory Attacks and Detection Khaled Fawzy bio (Nile University)		15:40-16:10	Coffee break
16:15-16:45	Classifying recaptured identity documents using the biomedical Meijering and Sato algorithms John Magee bio(Technological University Dublin)			Reputation threats
16:45-17:15	Identifying Online Child Sexual Texts in Dark Web through Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms Vuong M. Ngo bio (Technological University Dublin)		16:10-16:30	Block and Roll: A Metric-based Evaluation of Reputation Block Lists Siôn Lloyd bio (ICANN)
17:30-18:30	Meeting of the APWG.eu Advisory Board and Guest		16:30-16:50	Brand Phishing detection with Machine Learning Nadezda Demidova bio and Marc Green bio (eBay)
19:30	Networking Dinner Urban Brewing CHQ Building, Custom House Quay IFSC, Dublin, D01 Y6P5 www.urbanbrewing.ie

CALL FOR PAPERS

APWG.EU Technical Summit and Researchers Sync-Up 2023 is a two-day event focused on electronic crime with a research and interdisciplinary programme consisting of invited keynotes, interactive panels, and chalk-talk sessions. The event’s objective is to bring together academic researchers from multiple disciplines, industry security practitioners, government representatives, and law enforcement officials to discuss and exchange ideas, experiences and lessons learned while combating cybercrime from a polyhedric perspective.

This year’s programme includes a chalk-talk lab session “the Researchers’ Sync-Up”. Sync-Up is a moderated chalk-talk where leading investigators and interdisciplinary innovators discuss their next five years of cybercrime research. Why is this research needed? What is lacking to commit to this direction? Sync-Up enables big ideas to find the investigators with the tools, will and data to drive cybercrime research into the future. Interaction, discussion, and multidisciplinary collaborations will be fostered. Focus areas for Sync-Up include but are not limited to: metrics and categorization schema; data exchange and data logistics challenges; and unchartered behavioral questions in cybercrime research.

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Papers submission: May 1^st, 2023
  Extended: May 12^th, 2023
• Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 21^st, 2023
• Authors registration: May 28^th, 2023
• Conference data: June 21-22, 2023

Articles’ topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Electronic crime research and innovation
• Cryptocurrency and related cybercrime, tools, and responses
• Artificial Intelligence in Cybercrime and its prevention
• Case studies of current attack methods, including phishing, malware, rogue antivirus programs, pharming, crimeware, botnets, and other emerging techniques.
• Technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of electronic crime and its prevention.
• Malware, botnets, cybercriminal/phishing gangs, or money laundering.
• Cybersecurity in specific markets: financial services, e-commerce, health, energy & supplies.
• Techniques to avoid detection, tracking and take-down; proactive ways to counteract such techniques.
• Designing and evaluating user interfaces with fraud and network security in mind.
• Behavioral aspects of cybercrime resilience and susceptibility in ICT users.
• Best practices for detecting and preventing damage to critical internet infrastructure.
• The economics of online crime.
• Approaches and/or research to measure the impacts of cybercrime

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

     Alexandros Zacharis, ENISA
     Jorge Chinea López, Incibe
     Brad Wardman, Booz Allen Hamilton / APWG
     Manel Medina, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
     Christina Thorpe, Technical University Dublin
     Ray Genoe, University College of Dublin
     Francisco Fernández, INCIBE
     Marc Rivero, La Salle BCN
     Rubén Calleja, INCIBE
     David Elizondo, De Monfort Univesity
     Foy Shiver, APWG
     Guy Jourdan, University of Ottawa
     Jarno Salonen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
     Louise O Hagan, Workday/ Cyber Awareness Ireland
     Zoriana Dm, APWG.EU
     Daria Catalui, Allianz

Submission Types

• Regular papers: max 12 pages of practical and/or theoretical content describing advances in the fight against Electronic Crime and any of the topics listed in the CFP.
• Position papers/Session and Panel proposals: max 6 pages with content where authors discuss their opinions on Electronic Crime related fields. Discussion on regulations, policies, draft standards, and similar topics to foster discussion are welcome.
• Short papers/Posters: max 6 pages of practical and/or theoretical content describing unfinished, ongoing research with preliminary (not yet conclusive) results.
• Chalk-talk papers: max 4 pages with research ideas for principal investigators and motivated researchers willing to explore collaborations and looking for synergies in Electronic Crime related fields. Interdisciplinary proposals are particularly welcome. These papers are aimed at fostering collaboration, discussing groundbreaking ideas, and forging lasting research collaborations amongst the attendees.

AUTHORS’ GUIDANCE

• Tech Summit has adopted the CEUR publication format. Submissions should be in English, in PDF format with all fonts embedded, formatted using the CEUR template, found here: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
• Papers should be prepared in two-column format
• Submissions should be anonymized, excluding author names, affiliations and acknowledgements. Authors’ own work should be referred to in the third person.
• Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and papers should be intelligible without them.
• Authors of accepted papers, sessions, panels or chalk-talks must present them and register at the event.

  Papers will be published on the CEUR-WP

For paper submissions use the New Submission option at https://ecrime2023sync-up.hotcrp.com/

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Venue

Technological University Dublin Central Quad – Grangegorman Lower Dublin 7, D07 ADY7, Ireland

 

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Accommodations

APWG.EU has negotiated with several hotels to offer attendees a special rate at a variety of price points.  Book early, there is a large local event the weekend after our meeting and rooms will go fast.

The Hendrick – where style meets substance. We’ve put ourselves right in the heart of Dublin’s most vibrant areas. You’ll be swimming in all the culture! Our gift to you.

Reservations can be made online at https://secure.hendrickdublin.ie/convert/site/The%20Hendrick/index.html?av=promo&promotionCode=APWG2023&fw_submitted=1 using the discount code APWG2023 to receive the negotiated rate. 

Hotel Rui Plaza The Gresham Dublin

The new Hotel Riu Plaza The Gresham Dublin is located in the heart of Dublin, in a historic building on the famous O’Connell Street, and become one of the city’s emblematic sites. This Irish hotel offers you the best facilities for you to enjoy an unforgettable holiday with RIU Hotels & Resorts.  

Reservations can be made online at the negotiated APWG.EU rate using this link: https://www.riu.com/en/riuplaza/formularios/apwg-eu-tech-2023.jsp

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Students, Researchers and Speakers receive complimentary registration for this event.  Contact apwg_events@apwg.org for a discount code.
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