IEEE Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations

WACCO 2020


Engineering & Computer Science (General)



The 2nd Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO 2020) will be held jointly with the 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy in Genoa, Italy, on the 15th of June 2020.
The workshop welcomes mono-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary submissions on quantitative and qualitative analyses of cyber-crime operations; fully in scope to the workshop are contributions focussing on the networking, technical, criminological, psychological, economic, and law dimensions of cybercrime.
WACCO 2020 calls for all contributions aiming at providing methods, measures, metrics, and technologies or tools to quantitatively or qualitatively evaluate cyber-offenders and attackers from technical and non-technical angles. The workshop invites contributions from, but not limited to, the fields of network and computer security, criminology, psychology, law, and economics addressing this issue.
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Empirical studies on attacker operations and communities
Novel methods to perform attacker measurements at scale across several communities
Cooperation and trust as a source of attackers’ effectiveness
Attackers’ skill set
Attackers’ operational security
Measuring the spread of false information campaigns on social media
Quantitative and qualitative methods to measure, track, and counter cybercrime
Cybercrime measurement and networks
Cybercrime policy
Economics of cybercrime
Profiling of cybercriminals
Security metric design and evaluation
Security patch measurement
Statistical exploration and prediction of security incidents
Open Source Intelligence and digital footprints