2019 Accepted Research Papers

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

Below the Radar: Spotting DNS Tunnels in Newly Observed Hostnames in the Wild

Dennis Tatang ; Florian Quinkert ; Thorsten Holz

 

Assessing the Threat of Blockchain-based Botnets

Leon Böck ; Nikolaos Alexopoulos ; Emine Saracoglu ; Max Mühlhäuser ; Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis

 

Mapping the Underground: Supervised Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains

Rasika Bhalerao ; Maxwell Aliapoulios ; Ilia Shumailov ; Sadia Afroz ; Damon McCoy

 

Whitelists that Work: Creating Defensible Dynamic Whitelists with Statistical Learning

Renée Burton ; Laura Rocha

 

Honware: A Virtual Honeypot Framework for Capturing CPE and IoT Zero Days

Alexander Vetterl ; Richard Clayton

 

A meta-analysis of field experiments on phishing susceptibility

Teodor Sommestad ; Henrik Karlzén

 

From playing games to committing crimes: A multi-technique approach to predicting key actors on an online gaming forum

Jack Hughes ; Ben Collier ; Alice Hutchings

 


Report Now. Report Effectively. Conceptualizing the Industry Practice for Cybercrime Reporting

Morvareed Bidgoli ; Bart P. Knijnenburg ; Jens Grossklags ; Brad Wardman

 

Dine and Dash: Static, Dynamic, and Economic Analysis of In-Browser Cryptojacking

Muhammad Saad ; Aminollah Khormali ; Aziz Mohaisen

 

Control and Understanding in Malicious and Benign Software

Eric Spero ; Milica Stojmenović ; Sonia Chiasson ; Robert Biddle

 

Fighting the “blackheart airports”: internal policing in the Chinese censorship circumvention ecosystem

Yi Ting Chua ;

 

Identifying Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity Countermeasures

Yi Ting Chua ; Simon Parkin ; Matthew Edwards ; Daniela Oliveira ; Stefan Schiffner ; Gareth Tyson ; Alice Hutchings