2018 Accepted Research Papers

24 Jun 2019 

The Symposium on Electronic Crime Research is an annual event hosted by the APWG. The event’s continuing goal is to promote cybercrime research by providing an venue for university researchers to publish their work. The program has published 100’s of papers specifically focused on fraud and crime in the cyber world.

This Year's Published Papers

Inside a Phisher’s Mind: Understanding the Anti-phishing Ecosystem Through Phishing Kit Analysis

Adam Oest ; Yeganeh Safei ; Adam Doupe ; Gail-Joon Ahn ; Brad Wardman ; Gary Warner

Using URL Shorteners to Compare Phishing and Malware Attacks

Sophie Le Page ; Guy-Vincent Jourdan ; Gregor v. Bochmann ; Jason Flood ; Iosif-Viorel Onut

A Layered Approach to Defending Against List- Linking Email Bombs

Cristina Houle ; Ruchika Pandey

A Key-Management-Based Taxonomy for Ransomware

Pranshu Bajpai ; Aditya K Sood ; Richard Enbody

Large Scale Detection of IDN Domain Name Masquerading

Yahia Elsayed ; Ahmed Shosha

At-Risk System Identification via Analysis of Discussions on the Darkweb

Eric Nunes ; Paulo Shakarian ; Gerardo I. Simari

“Effects of Peer Feedback on Password Strength

Marc Dupuis ; Faisal Khan


Bullet-Proof Payment Processors

Hongwei Tian ; Stephen M. Gaffigan ; D. Sean West ; Damon McCoy

COINHOARDER: Tracking a Ukrainian Bitcoin Phishing Ring DNS Style

Artsiom Holub ; Jeremiah O’Connor