This year’s program features “The Researchers’ Forum,” a moderated chalk-talk panel for investigators and innovators to discuss the future of cybercrime research. Key questions include: What critical research is needed? What resources are lacking? This session aims to connect visionary ideas with experts possessing the tools, data, and determination to advance the field.
Focus areas for the Forum include:
- Metrics and categorization frameworks
- Data exchange and logistics challenges
- Emerging behavioral questions in cybercrime research
Important Dates: Papers submission: March, 21 2025. EXTENDED until April 10, 2025!
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April, 18, 2025.
Authors registration: April, 25 2024.
Conference: June 17-18, 2025.
Articles’ topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Electronic crime research and innovation
- Emerging Tools for Cybercrime Detection: AI-driven tools, threat intelligence platforms, and advanced analytics for fighting cybercrime.
- Cryptocurrency and related cybercrime, tools, and responses
- Artificial Intelligence in Cybercrime and its prevention
- Case studies of current attack methods, including phishing, malware, rogue antivirus programs, pharming, crimeware, botnets, and other emerging techniques.
- Privacy and Data Protection: Innovations and challenges in safeguarding personal data in a cybercrime-prone landscape.
- Forensic Analysis and Incident Response: Advances in digital forensics tools and techniques for investigating cybercrime incidents.
- Technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of electronic crime and its prevention.
- Malware, botnets, cybercriminal/phishing gangs, or money laundering.
- Cybersecurity in specific markets: financial services, e-commerce, health, energy & supplies.
- Techniques to avoid detection, tracking and take-down; proactive ways to counteract such techniques.
- Designing and evaluating user interfaces with fraud and network security in mind.
- Behavioral aspects of cybercrime resilience and susceptibility in ICT users.
- Best practices for detecting and preventing damage to critical internet infrastructure.
- The economics of online crime.
Authors' Guidance
SUBMIT YOUR PAPER HERE: Tech Summit 2025
- Tech Summit has adopted the CEUR publication format. Submissions should be in English, in PDF format with all fonts embedded, formatted using the CEUR template, found here: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
- Papers should be prepared in two-column format
- Submissions should be anonymized, excluding author names, affiliations and acknowledgements. Authors’ own work should be referred to in the third person.
- Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and papers should be intelligible without them.
- Authors of accepted papers, sessions, panels or chalk-talks must present them and register at the event.
- Papers will be published on the CEUR-WP
- Regular papers: max 12 pages of practical and/or theoretical content describing advances in the fight against Electronic Crime and any of the topics listed in the CFP.
- Position papers/Session and Panel proposals: max 6 pages with content where authors discuss their opinions on Electronic Crime related fields. Discussion on regulations, policies, draft standards, and similar topics to foster discussion are welcome.
- Short papers/Posters: max 6 pages of practical and/or theoretical content describing unfinished, ongoing research with preliminary (not yet conclusive) results.
- Chalk-talk papers: max 4 pages with research ideas for principal investigators and motivated researchers willing to explore collaborations and looking for synergies in Electronic Crime related fields. Interdisciplinary proposals are particularly welcome. These papers are aimed at fostering collaboration, discussing groundbreaking ideas, and forging lasting research collaborations amongst the attendees.
Program Committee:
Co-chairs:Carlos Fragoso (APWG.EU/Maltego) & Marc Rivero (La Salle BCN/Kaspersky)
- Alexandros Zacharis - ENISA
- Brad Wardman - Coinbase / APWG
- Yuejun Guo - Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
- Davide Maiorca - University of Cagliari
- Giorgio Giacinto - University of Cagliari
- Gabriele Orru - Poste Italiane
- Luca Caviglione - CNR (National Council of Research)
- Davy Preuveneers - Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
- Christina Thorpe - Technical University Dublin
- Manel Medina - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- Francisco Fernández - INCIBE
- Rubén Calleja - INCIBE
- Davide Ariu - Pluribus One
- Daria Catalui - Allianz Group
- Marco Balduzzi - Trend Micro Research
- Manos Athanatos - Technical University of Crete
- Sebastien Deleersnyder - Toreon
- Martin Knobloch - Valtech
- Giannis Ledakis - UBITECH
- Sarantis Kalafatidis - UBITECH
- Michal Choras - Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology
- Kitty Kioskli - TRUSTILIO
