The seventh annual APWG eCrime Researchers Summit will be held as part of eCrime '12 on October 22-25, 2012 in Las Croabas, Puerto Rico.

eCRS 2012 consist of two full days which bring together academic researchers, security practitioners, and law enforcement to discuss all aspects of electronic crime and ways to combat it. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to):

Phishing, rogue-AV, pharming, click-fraud, crimeware, extortion and emerging attacks.
Technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of fraud and fraud prevention.
Malware, botnets, ecriminal/phishing gangs and collaboration, or money laundering.
Techniques to assess the risks and yields of attacks and the success rates of countermeasures.
Delivery techniques, including spam, voice mail and rank manipulation; and countermeasures.
Spoofing of different types, and applications to fraud.
Techniques to avoid detection, tracking and takedown; and ways to block such techniques.
Honeypot design, data mining, and forensic aspects of fraud prevention.
Design and evaluation of user interfaces in the context of fraud and network security.
Best practices related to digital forensics tools and techniques, investigative procedures, and evidence acquisition, handling and preservation.

Accepted papers will be published in proceedings. In addition, cash awards will be given for the best paper overall and the best student co-authored paper. A limited number of cash travel awards will also be made to student authors of papers and posters.