Call for Submissions: IEEE APWG eCrime 2025

Conference dates: 4-7 November 2025 | San Diego, California 

The 20th Annual APWG eCrime Symposium

The 2025 Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2025) examines essential factors for managing the impacts of the global cybercrime plexus to secure IT users, commercial enterprises, governments, critical infrastructures, and operational technologies.

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Why Participate?

• Showcase your original research results to international experts and peers, and gain valuable feedback.

Opportunities

• Present your research outcomes
• Utilize your platform to share new advances, ideas, and solutions
• Highlight your contributions
• Contribute to event programming and technical content
• Take part in groundbreaking keynote speeches, peer-reviewed technical papers, and posters

Topics

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) as criminal co-conspirator and defensive collaborator, such as:
  • Malicious AI agents employed to perform enhanced malware polymorphism, agentic spearphishing, reconnaissance, etc.
  • Development and maintenance of criminal co-pilots and the future of human-machine teaming, including hybridized human-crimebot cyber gangs
  • Are malicious AI tools lowering the skills barrier to commit more advanced cybercrimes
• Adversarial AI (attacks directly against AIs and machine learning systems) as it relates to the furtherance of cybercrime or cyber-physical cybercrime — especially agents employed in security operations
• Defensive AI Agents deployed as cybersecurity operations managers and (autonomous and semi-autonomous) counter-cybercrime managers
• Design, deployment and assessment of multi-agent environments (MAEs) for enhancing resilience of infrastructure and systems to cybercrime
• Design, deployment and assessment of defenses related to AI systems themselves (jailbreaks, injections, etc.)
• Actual, emerging or potential risks from AI systems deployed to animate cybercrimes against people, operational systems, IoT technologies, or physical spaces and objects
• Abuse of cyber-physical systems and operational technologies and downstream manipulation (extant, emerging or potential) for furtherance of crimes with physical manifestations, including:
  • Drone and robot hijacking and weaponization
  • Criminal abuses and weaponization of medical and surgical systems
  • Criminal abuses and weaponization of IoT for domestic and commercial targeting
  • Criminal abuses and weaponization of autonomous vehicles and delivery robots
• AI and machine-learning system security to mitigate threats posed by advanced cybercriminal algorithms — and to guard against strategically misinforming and abusing them for criminal enterprises
• New research on policy, regulation, and law as they pertain to cybercrime of all types

Submit your content

While 29 July marks the deadline for peer-reviewed research, APWG eCrime program will be reviewing General Session proposals until 15 September.

Submit general session proposals

In addition to submitting your paper to IEEE APWG eCrime 2025, you are also encouraged to upload the data related to your paper to IEEE DataPort.  IEEE DataPort is IEEE's data platform that supports the storage and publishing of datasets while also providing access to thousands of research datasets. Uploading your dataset to IEEE DataPort will strengthen your paper and will support research reproducibility.  Your paper and the dataset can be linked, providing a good opportunity for you to increase the number of citations you receive.  Data can be uploaded to IEEE DataPort prior to submitting your paper or concurrent with the paper submission.  Thank you!