Novel countermeasures against information hiding techniques: detection, prevention, limitation
Evasion, obfuscation and anti-forensics techniques used by cybercriminals
Hiding covert communication within network attacks e.g. DDoS, SPAM, etc.
Abusing legitimate social media services for masking criminal activities
Abusing legitimate cloud-based services for masking criminal activities
Methods for botnet detection and mitigation from CUIng perspective
Large scale coordinated actions by LEAs from CUIng perspective
Studies regarding the use of information hiding in cybercrime
Traffic type obfuscation techniques e.g. traffic morphing
Impersonation of one cybercriminals groups by the other
Aspects and methods for sharing strategic intelligence
Masking network attacks with another types of threats
Future scenarios in cybercrime from CUIng perspective
Underground marketplaces and their business models
Legal and technical aspects of Darknet research
Local, air-gapped, and network covert channels
Analysis of cybercrime cases related to CUIng
New steganographic & steganalysis methods
Cybercrime and CPS from CUIng perspective
Botnet analysis from CUIng perspective
Banking Trojans from CUIng perspective
Analysis of underground environments
IoT-botnets from CUIng perspective
Information hiding techniques
Privacy enhancing techniques
IMPORTANT DATES
| Submission Deadline | May 24, 2017 |
| Author Notification | June 6, 2017 |
| Proceedings Version | June 20, 2017 |
| Conference | August 29 – September 1, 2017 |
WORKSHOP CHAIR
Philipp Amann
(Chair)
Europol, European Cybercrime Centre, The Netherlands
Philipp.Amann@europol.europa.eu
J
art Armin
(Chair)
CyberDefcon, The Netherlands
jart@cyberdefcon.com
Wojciech Mazurczyk
(Chair)
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
wmazurczyk@tele.pw.edu.pl
Angelo Consoli
(Chair)
Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI), Switzerland
angelo.consoli@supsi.ch
Peter Kieseberg
(Chair)
SBA Research, Austria
pkieseberg@sba-research.org
J
Joerg Keller
(Chair)
FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Joerg.Keller@fernuni-hagen.de
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Francesca Bosco, UNICRI, Italy
Brent Carrara, University of Ottawa, Canada
Luca Caviglione, CNR, Italy
Marc Chaumont, LIRMM Montpellier – University of Nimes, France
Marco Cremonini, University of Milan, Italy
Jana Dittmann, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Mattia Epifani, CNR, Italy
Zeno Geradts, Netherlands Forensic Institute, Netherland
Dipak Ghosal, University of California, Davis, USA
Julio Hernandez-Castro, University of Kent, UK
David-Olivier Jaquet-Chiffelle, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Stefan Katzenbeisser, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
Piotr Kijewski, Shadowserver, Poland
Pawel Korus, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Christian Kraetzer, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Jean-Francois Lalande, INSA Centre Val de Loire, France
Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK
Foy Shiver, APWG, USA
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria
Steffen Wendzel, Worms University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Alan Woodward, University of Surrey, UK
Sebastian Zander, Murdoch University, Australia
Hui Tian, National Huaqiao University, China
and several LEA representatives (however they sometimes do not want to be listed openly)
SUBMISSION
The submission guidelines valid for the CUING workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. They can be found >>here<<.
CONTACT
In case of questions, please feel free to contact us via info@cuing.org .
Invited speakers
Dr Shujun Li
University of Surrey, UK
Abstract : In this talk, the speaker will discuss how information hiding has evolved from traditional approaches based on digital objects to network based approaches and more recently to even more general approaches based on diverse activities in the cyber-physical-social world including observable behaviors of human users and activities of automated programs (e.g., bots) and devices (e.g., smart sensors). He will introduce some recent work he and his collaborators have been working on, which started several years ago from a small feasibility research project called “Mobile Magic Mirror (M3): Steganography and Cryptography on the move”
Dr Shujun Li
will join the University of Kent later in 2017 as a Professor of Cyber Security and Director of its Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security. He is currently a Reader (Associate Professor) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey, and has been a Deputy Director of the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security (SCCS) since July 2014. SCCS has been a UK government recognized Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) since 2015 and its status has been recently re-recognized until 2022. Dr Li’s research interests are mostly around interdisciplinary topics covering cyber security, digital forensics and cybercrime, human factors and human-centric computing, multimedia computing and information visualization, and applications of artificial intelligence and discrete optimization. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of his research, Dr Li is actively working with researchers from other disciplines especially Electronic Engineering, Psychology, Business and Sociology. He has been leading a number interdisciplinary research projects including one on better approaches to understanding and influencing human behaviors for reducing human-related risks (ACCEPT), one on applications of cognitive modelling in cyber security (COMMANDO-HUMANS), and one on human-assisted machine learning for data loss prevention (H-DLP). Several projects he has been involved are about crime investigation and prevention (e.g. POLARBEAR), digital forensics (e.g. one on digital forensics standards), and information hiding (e.g. M3 and another research project on digital watermarking). He has been working very closely with industry and public bodies especially law enforcement agencies (LEAs) including a number of UK LEAs and Europol. Dr Li has published around 100 publications at international conferences and journals, and his work has attracted over 5500 citations with an h-index of 38 (Google Scholar). He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Digital Forensics of Multimedia Data and Devices, co-published by Wiley and IEEE Press in 2015. He is currently on the editorial boards of 5 international journals and has been on the organizing and technical program committees of many international conferences and workshops. He has one pending EU patent application on a new information hiding technology and another UK patent application on a new user authentication framework. Although not a mathematician or a theoretical computer scientist, his interdisciplinary work with at least two groups of researchers gives him a current Erdös Number of 3. Dr Li is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Professional Member of ACM, and a Global Member of the Internet Society. From 2009-2011 he was a member of MPEG (ISO/IEC JCT 1/SC 29/WG 11), and in 2012 was awarded an ISO/IEC Certificate of Appreciation for being the lead editor of ISO/IEC 23001-4:2011, the 2nd edition of the MPEG RVC standard. More about Dr Li’s research can be found at
http://www.hooklee.com/
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Wojciech Mazurczyk
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Abstract : In this keynote the main facts and activities related to the newly formed Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUIng) initiative launched in cooperation with Europol EC3 will be presented. Moreover, the rising trend of information hiding-based malware will be characterized and the challenges for digital forensics experts related to this new phenomenon will be discussed.
Wojciech Mazurczyk is an Associate Professor at Cybersecurity Division, Institute of Telecommunications (IT), Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland. Co-founder of Cybersecurity Division and the head of the Bio-inspired