Academic TrackTopics of interests include (but are not limited to):

• Economics of online crime
o Measurement studies of underground economies
o Models of e-crime
o Return on investment of various types of crime such as phishing, advanced fee fraud, running a botnet, etc…
• Uncovering and disrupting online criminal collaboration and gangs
• Security-related risk assessments
o The risks and yields of attacks
o Effectiveness of countermeasures
o Metrics standards
o Conventions in the establishment of tests of efficacy
• Attack delivery strategies and countermeasures
o Spam
o DNS
o Mobile Apps
o Social engineering
o Instant messaging
o Web browser search manipulation
• Malware
o Detection
o Identification of malware families
o Polymorphic malware detection
o Mobile malware
o Techniques to circumvent detection and sandboxes
• Security assessments of the mobile devices
o Mobile App stores and ecosystems
o Mobile App privacy
o Risk prevention issues
• Financial infrastructure of e-crime
o Criminal payment processing options
o Money laundering strategies
o Use of crypto-currencies
o Underground marketplaces
• Technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of fraud and fraud prevention


Industrial TrackTopics of interests include (but are not limited to):
• Case studies of current attack methods
o System and network intrusions
o Phishing
o Malware (rogue antivirus, botnets, ransomware, etc…)
o Spam
o Pharming
o Crimeware toolkits
o Emerging threats to mobile devices
• Open source intelligence
o Data collection and correlation
o Strategies and tools
• Case studies of online advertising fraud
o Click fraud
o Malvertising
o Cookie stuffing
o Affiliate fraud
• Case studies of large-scale take-downs
o Coordinated botnet disruption
o Phishing takedown
o Bullet proof hosting services
• Economics of online crime
o Measurement studies of underground economies
o Models of e-crime
o Return on investment of various types of crime such as phishing, advanced fee fraud, running a botnet, etc…
• Uncovering and disrupting online criminal collaboration and gangs
• Longitudinal study of eCrime related activities and their evolutions
• Security assessments of the mobile devices
o Mobile App stores and ecosystems
o Mobile malware
o Mobile App privacy
o Risk prevention issues
• Security-related risk assessments
o The risks and yields of attacks
o Effectiveness of countermeasures
o Metrics standards
o Conventions in the establishment of tests of efficacy