2023 Accepted Research Papers

2023 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.

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This Year's Published Papers

Ajka Draganovic∗, Savino Dambra¶, Javier Aldana Iuit§, Kevin Roundy¶, Giovanni Apruzzese∗ ∗University of Liechtenstein, ¶Norton Research Group, §Avast Software

Autism Disclosures and Cybercrime Discourse on a Large Underground Forum

Jessica Man, Computer Science and Technology University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom psjm3@cam.ac.uk

Gilberto Atondo Siu, Computer Science and Technology University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom jga33@cam.ac.uk

Alice Hutchings, Computer Science and Technology University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom alice.hutchings@cl.cam.ac.uk

Josh Clough Matthew Edwards
School of Computer Science University of Bristol, Bristol, UK josh.clough.jc@gmail.com
matthew.john.edwards@bristol.ac.uk

In the market for a Botnet? An in-depth analysis of botnet-related listings on Darkweb marketplaces

Dimitrios Georgoulias, Cyber Security Group Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark dge@es.aau.dk

Jens Myrup Pedersen, Cyber Security Group Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark jens@es.aau.dk

Alice Hutchings, Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom alice.hutchings@cl.cam.ac.uk

Morten Falch, Cyber Security Group Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark falch@es.aau.dk

Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis, DTU Compute Technical University of Denmark Kongens Lyngby, Denmark emmva@dtu.dk

Ransomware Economics: A Two-Step Approach To Model Ransom Paid

Tom Meurs∗, Edward Cartwright†, Anna Cartwright‡, Marianne Junger∗, Raphael Hoheisel∗, Erik Tews ∗ and Abhishta Abhishta ∗
∗ University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Email: t.w.a.meurs@utwente.nl, m.junger@utwente.nl r.e.hoheisel@utwente.nl, e.tews@utwente.nl s.abhishta@utwente.nl
† De Montfort University, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom Email: edward.cartwright@dmu.ac.uk
‡ Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Email: a.cartwright@brookes.ac.uk

Hacker’s Paradise: Analysing music in a cybercrime forum

Anna Talas
Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom anna.talas@cl.cam.ac.uk

Alice Hutchings
Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom alice.hutchings@cl.cam.ac.uk

Building a Resilient Domain Whitelist to Enhance Phishing Blocklist Accuracy

Jan Bayer ̊§, Sourena Maroofi§, Olivier Hureau ̊, Andrzej Duda ̊§, Maciej Korczynski ̊§

̊Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, France
firstname.lastname@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
§KOR Labs Cybersecurity, France firstname.lastname@korlabs.io

Achieving High-fidelity Explanations for Risk Exposition Assessment in the Cybersecurity Domain

1st Albert Calvo
Distributed Artificial Intelligence i2CAT Foundation Barcelona, Spain albert.calvo@i2cat.net

2nd Santiago Escuder
Distributed Artificial Intelligence i2CAT Foundation Barcelona, Spain santiago.escuder@i2cat.net

3rd Josep Escrig
Distributed Artificial Intelligence i2CAT Foundation Barcelona, Spain josep.escrig@i2cat.net

4th Xavier Marrugat
Cybersecurity i2CAT Foundation Barcelona, Spain xavier.marrugat@i2cat.net

5th Nil Ortiz
Cybersecurity i2CAT Foundation Barcelona, Spain nil.ortiz@i2cat.net

6th Jordi Guijarro
Cybersecurity i2CAT Foundation Barcelona, Spain jordi.guijarro@i2cat.net

A Kubernetes Underlay for OpenTDIP Forensic Computing Backend

Pouria Zahraei
Computer Science and Software Engineering Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
s ahrae@cse.concordia.ca

Serguei Mokhov
Computer Science and Software Engineering Concordia University
Montreal, Canada mokhov@cse.concordia.ca

Joey Paquet
Computer Science and Software Engineering Concordia University
Montreal, Canada paquet@cse.concordia.ca

Peyman Derafshkavian
Computer Science and Software Engineering Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
p derafs@cse.concordia.ca

The Slippery Slope: Exploring the Parallels Between Game Cheating and Cybercrime Through Routine Activity Theory

Selina Cho
Dept. of Computer Science University of Oxford Oxford, UK selina.cho@cs.ox.ac.uk

Jonathan Lusthaus
Dept. of Sociology University of Oxford
Oxford, UK jonathan.lusthaus@sociology.ox.ac.uk

Ivan Flechais
Dept. of Computer Science University of Oxford Oxford, UK ivan.flechais@cs.ox.ac.uk

Increasing the Efficiency of Cryptoasset Investigations by Connecting the Cases

Bernhard Haslhofer, Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria
email: haslhofer@csh.ac.at

Christiane Hanslbauer, Magistrate Court of Bamberg Bamberg, Germany
email: christiane.hanslbauer@ag-ba.bayern.de

Michael Fröwis, Iknaio Cryptoasset Analytics GmbH Vienna, Austria
email: michael@ikna.io

Thomas Goger, Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime (ZCB) Bamberg, Germany
email: thomas.goger@gensta-ba.bayern.de