Call for Cybercrime WIPs, Demos, Collaboration Opportunities & Wild Ideas Worthy of Domestication

Moderators: TBA

Overview

The APWG’s Symposium on Electronic Crime (eCrime) invites: cybercrime research demonstrations; works in progress and research proposals that exhibit important results and suggest applications; and telling comparative analyses from across the cybercrime and anti-abuse landscape.

The eCrime Chalk Talk will convene at 5:30 PM-ish, following the official close of proceedings of eCrime 2026 at the Hotel InterContinental Lisbon.

eCrime Chalk Talks are designed to surface insight-rich discussions that help researchers of all disciplines and cybercrime interveners of all stripes.

Suitable Contributions

We welcome proposals for provocative demos, research reviews, research proposals and opportunities for cybercrime research collaboration, including but not restricted to:

• Threats & Abuse of Ecosystems: phishing, social-engineering at scale, malware distribution, botnets, account takeovers, financial fraud, crypto-enabled crime, AI-enabled abuse

• Defense & Governance: takedown efficacy, disruption strategies, trust/safety ops, incident response, information-sharing models, legal/regulatory and standards implications (NIS2, eIDAS2, privacy regimes, etc.)

• Economics & Human Factors: underground markets, monetization pathways, deception/behavioral risk, user-centric mitigations, incentives and deterrence

• Data, Semantics & Infrastructure: labeling quality, schema harmonization, entity resolution, privacy-preserving and cross-sector data harmonization and corpus fusion
Presentation Formats

• Working demo (10–15 minutes + Q&A): Bottom line demonstrations of working systems to exhibit its applications and suggest further development and collaboration opportunites at hand

• Work in Progress Talk (5–15 minutes + Q&A): Cogent summarizations and analyses of current research, its progress to date and its probably consequences, highlighting theses, early results, evidence, gaps, etc. while seeking input and recommendations from other PIs and industrial OGs.

- Call for data contributions and collaborators

- Call for survey subjects

• Wild Ideas Worthy of Domestication (WIWOD): Proposals based on provocative observations and unexpected results pointing to cybercrime research directions that may yield important products, as posed by investigators seeking guidance and encouragement from the famously sage, imaginative and unruly APWG eCrime delegation.

Submission Contents (single PDF or 1–2 page brief)

1. Title & Format (Working Demo / Talk / Deep-Dive / Research Proposal - Call for Collaborators & Data Contributors / + optional Demo/Poster)

2. Author(s)/Affiliation(s) and corresponding contact

3. Structured Abstract (≤200 words) – research questions, scope, method (e.g., systematic protocol, inclusion criteria), key findings

4. Evidence Base – core sources, datasets, or corpora; note any public artifacts (code, data, preregistration)
Selection Criteria

• Rigor & Methodological Clarity

• Actionability & Applicability (recommendations for operators, interveners, standards bodies, regulators, etc.)

• Originality & Breadth (new aggregation, uncommon sources, cross-disciplinary reach)
Important Notes

• Live safety: No live demonstration of active threats against third-party systems; use redacted/controlled/sandboxed materials.

• Confidentiality: Aggregate or anonymize sensitive data unless you have explicit permission and a lawful basis to share.
Key Dates

• Submission deadline: November 1

• Notification: November 3

• Chalk Talk Date: November 5

How to Submit

Please submit via email to ecrime2026@apwg.org under the Subject line: eCrime 2026 Chalk Talk Session Proposal

Audience:

Researchers, operators, platform trust & safety teams, CSIRTs, standards developers, policy makers, insurers/actuaries, and enforcement/regulatory stakeholders seeking decision-grade syntheses of the cybercrime evidence base.