Reading Thieves’ Cant: Automatically Identifying and Understanding Dark Jargons from Cybercrime Marketplaces

"Reading Thieves’ Cant: Automatically Identifying and Understanding Dark Jargons from Cybercrime Marketplaces", by Kan Yuan, Haoran Lu, Xiaojing Liao, and XiaoFeng Wang, Indiana University Bloomington, Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium. August 15–17, 2018 • Baltimore, MD, USA. 

"Underground communication is invaluable for understanding cybercrimes. However, it is often obfuscated by the extensive use of dark jargons, innocently-looking terms like “popcorn” that serves sinister purposes (buying/selling drug, seeking crimeware, etc.). Discovery and understanding of these jargons have so far relied on manual effort, which is error-prone and cannot catch up with the fast evolving underground ecosystem. In this paper, we present the first technique, called Cantreader, to automatically detect and understand dark jargon..."

Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace - NSCS - July 2018

Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace - NSCS - July 2018, 20 pages. The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) "released its 2018 Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace report, which highlights current threats and future trends in foreign intelligence efforts to steal U.S. intellectual property, trade secrets, and proprietary information via cyberspace".

Chinese Cyberespionage Originating From Tsinghua University Infrastructure

Chinese Cyberespionage Originating From Tsinghua University Infrastructure, By Sanil Chohan, Winnona DeSombre, and Justin Grosfelt, 26 pages, 2018. 

1st Annual Conference on the Human Factor in Cybercrime

1st Annual Conference on the Human Factor in Cybercrime. Mt. Scopus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 14-15 october, 2018. Program, registration

The European Society of Criminology Working Group on Cybercrime

The European Society of Criminology Working Group on Cybercrime aims at "creating a network for information exchange and international collaboration between leading scholars, starting scholars, graduate students, government agencies, and private organizations involved in cybercrime research". 

Presentation of the objectives, organization and initiatives of the Group. 

Webpage of the Working Group

The state of Canadian cybersecurity workshop

"The state of Canadian cybersecurity workshop ", October 24-25, 2018. Gatineau (Quebec). SERENE-RISC Annual Workshop. Confirmed speakers

Politicas pùblicas para el acceso a Internet en Venezuela

Raisa Urribarrí y Marianne Díaz, "Politicas pùblicas para el acceso a Internet en Venezuela", Julio 2018, 48 paginas. 

"El deterioro de las telecomunicaciones en Venezuela, conjuntamente con las restricciones al flujo de información digital y las acciones de violencia contra periodistas y ciudadanos a causa de sus actividades en línea, construyen un panorama de control efectivo de las comunicaciones en internet. Este estudio describe los últimos dieciocho años de un complejo fenómeno, tomando en consideración el contexto histórico, político y social a través del análisis de un conjunto de indicadores e hitos, resumidos en esta infografía, que nos permiten trazar la historia de la infraestructura de las telecomunicaciones y las restricciones del acceso a internet en Venezuela."