The Symposium on Electronic Crime Research 2023 (eCrime 2023) examines: the emerging tactics, techniques and procedures of today’s threatscape; the economic foundations; behavioral elements; and other keystone aspects that fuel the burgeoning global, multi-billion-dollar cybercrime plexus at its 18th annual symposium on Nov 15 – Nov 17, 2023 in Barcelona, Spain.

APWG sponsoring members can register for NO CHARGE using a members code (i.e. Premium: 3 per; Sponsor: 2 per; Corporate & Corporate Individual levels: 1 per). Member codes will be distributed to APWG members via the members discussion list. Discount ticket codes are also available for unsubsidized university researchers, government personnel and law enforcement personnel. Delegates from those organizations can contact the event organizers at apwg_events@apwg.org.

APWG will be using this, its 20th anniversary symposium, to map the evolution of cybercrime since 2003 when the first branded phishing campaigns hit bank customers’ email boxes – and to isolate inflection points that present opportunities for programmatic and, hopefully, dispositive interventions. Leading those discussions will be some of the most important authorities in the field of cybercrime suppression and intervention from industry, academia, law enforcement and the public sector. The eCrime 2023 agenda follows, below:

Students requiring discounts should contact symposium managers at apwg_events@apwg.org.

The symposium’s proceedings are in English.

Please contact the APWG eCrime organizers for details via email at apwg_events@apwg.org.

This year’s eCrime program marks 20 years since APWG’s founding. Originally organized by a coalition of banks, technology companies and US federal police agencies investigating the then new threat of phishing, APWG has since evolved into a coalition of cybercrime experts spanning the globe from a number of industries, research disciplines and public-sector entities — from national governments to multilateral treaty organization

At eCrime 2023, an inter-disciplinary, cross-sector cohort of experts will peer into the future of the global confrontation with cybercrime to map the global response agenda for the decades ahead. Our delegation will consider how cybercrime complexity and AI will influence stake-holders’ strategic direction and define broader imperatives. We will look toward a future in which those synthetic intelligences will be put to use for benefit of civil society, of course, but we will also have to ask, in the end, under whose aegis will these intelligences operate? The good guys’? The bad guys’? Or their own?

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