CRITiCaL - Combatting cRiminals In The CLoud

Lead Research Organisation: Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Computing

Abstract

The Cloud is an emerging technology that offers democratic access to computing power, data storage, software and services often for a small pay-per-use cost. Like any new technology the Cloud has potential for great good, but in the wrong hands can facilitate criminal activity. Within this project we seek to understand the different types of crime that can happen in the Cloud, build systems that will allow the detection of this criminal behaviour and enable the use of digital evidence to lead to successful prosecution of Cloud crime perpetrators.

In order to achieve this goal we are forming a truly inter-disciplinary research centre leveraging the strengths of both Durham and Newcastle Universities. Bringing together the strengths of Durham in criminology, law and ethics along with the strengths of Newcastle in the areas of (computer) systems security, artificial intelligence, data mining and psychology. We are convinced that Cloud crime can only be detected and tackled by such a truly inter-disciplinary centre. Such a centre will actively create the research foundations for successful computational methods in crime detection combined with good user engagement, generating research that can cross disciplines and directly inform public policy, police and prosecution practices and transform public understanding of Cloud crime.

This will involve development of a true understanding of what crime can be conducted on the Cloud. Facilitated through the development of cloud crime scripts, defining the activities of a criminal act, which will aid discussion between the different disciplines and must be presentable in a format understandable by our key stakeholders: Cloud providers/users/developers, law enforcement agencies and the criminal justice system.

The detection of criminal activity in the cloud requires the integration of heterogeneous sensors, aggregation and analysis techniques, where we draw upon existing expertise in cloud security assurance (Gross, IBM), host monitoring and anomaly detection Ben-ware (McGough, Wall, DSTL), and fuzzy search on unstructured data, intrusion detection and analysis (Nifty, Yan). We propose combining the systems expertise with complementary techniques in artificial intelligence, including data mining (McGough), behaviour machine learning, anomaly detection (Ploetz) and hierarchical machine learning and knowledge extraction (Bacardit).

This portfolio gives raise to multiple means to derive and combine intelligence, present bespoke visualizations, situational awareness, grammar or language generation for the cloud crime scripts. Thus allowing the centre to tailor the intelligence, and its presentation, to a given stakeholders needs. We propose using additional human computation and crowd sourcing techniques to reduce the number of situations where the system incorrectly identifies a criminal act. The use of human computation and crowd sourcing will also allow us to hone the machine learning system, developing a suite of hybrid techniques that, together, will improve cloud crime detection but will frame the results in such a way as to support subsequent crown prosecution processes. This latter achievement will require expertise in the disciplines of criminology, forensic sciences, law and ethics and will require collaboration with police forces throughout the UK and Action Fraud.

In addition we will bring in relevant work around (i) forensic psychology (Oxburgh) that will deliver case-sensitive interview and investigative procedures for witnesses, victims and investigators; (ii) prosecution procedures that will ensure that evidence going to court is not compromised by intelligence gathering methodologies and (iii) prevention of underreporting of Cloud crime and improvement of public understanding and confidence.

Planned Impact

It is accepted that the use of the Cloud is expanding at an exceptional rate and the technology is developing very rapidly. The Centre is committed to not just keeping pace with the technical development but also to enable understanding of the issues behind the new areas of criminality in the cloud. The Centre will maximise the impact (in knowledge, societally and economically) of its activities for the UK and the region, following Newcastle University's dedication as civic university and the Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security (CCCS) theme 'Protecting Society's Fabric'. Impact from the activities will fall in the broad areas below:

1. Knowledge on cloud crime and cybercrime.
Outputs from Work Packages (WP) 1 and 5 will enable greater understanding of the environment and criminal use of the Cloud. Through our stakeholder network this will expand knowledge, assets and capacities for all stakeholders involved, be it Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) - police forces etc., cloud providers, victim organizations, or government. This includes:

- Methodological knowledge in terms of guidelines and best practices affecting policy
- Action plans to exercise upon such as investigative interview scripts
- Recommendations for policing and governance for policy and operational development.

Output from WP 2 will enable the use of novel system architectures to gain real time situational awareness, including real-time detection and simulation thereby delivering intelligence on the criminal activity. This will also offer the opportunity of use by LEAs for better approaches to digital forensics and detection.

2. People and UK Cyber Security Experts.
Expansion of the knowledge base understanding and expertise by the Centre are critical aspects of WP 2, 4 and 6. By the research of the centre and through the engagement strategy there will be effective knowledge transfer to stakeholders in addition all researchers will have the environment to become experts of the fields of cloud computing and cloud crime. The Centre Draws together experts from Durham and Newcastle forming a hub of cybercrime and security research in the North East that is second to none. Additional impacts include:

- PhD students, in particular with the EPSRC DTCs Cloud Computing for Big Data and Digital Civics in collaboration and supervised by investigators, additional PhDs contributed by the institutions, and GCHQ/ACE-CSR PhDs aligned with the centre topics.
LEAs, police forces and SME cloud developers will both have access to experts and will themselves have the opportunity to become experts in cloud and cyber crime understanding for policing and governance.

3. Economics.
The north East already has a significant ICT and digital economy (e.g. Sunderland Software city, Dyanamo NE, Cobalt Data park) the centre will provide an additional growth impulse to these initiatives. Drawing on a fabric of SMEs already present and connected to the universities and centres. (WP6)
Amplifying government and council investments from Newcastle and Sunderland council, as well as the universities, e.g. Science Central in Newcastle, or the council/government co-funded Newcastle cloud centre.
WPs 2-6 will create a critical mass for cloud security research aligned with the G-cloud vision exercised in the Northeast.

4. Society.
Use of the Cloud will increase dramatically in the future; the development of policies, detection methods, understanding can be used a source of new policy development and discussion. In particular the Centre will improve public confidence as pursued in the user engagement strategy (WP5, 6) and drive down under-reporting as discussed with Northumbria police.
Feedback with end-users from both virtual real communications how cloud crime and their harm is taken care of and a better understanding of the criminal environment will lead to higher detection rates and confidence in the LEAs.

Publications

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Description The Contails Centre CRITiCaL established social-science and data-science underpinning of combatting cloud crime.
In terms of social science results, the project offered a criminological evaluation of the related cybercrime ecosystem, along with the discovery and characterization of the Cascade effect, that is, how initial cloud-related cybercrimes cascade into resulting further cybercrimes. In terms of social-science/criminological research data, the project secured a comprehensive database of relevant cases that underpin the observed effects. This research was complemented by psychological research into pathways into online transgression, for instance, investigating gaming and hacking communities, and reviews of human factors of victimization and perpetration.
This was further complemented by a legal review of cloud crime security and privacy. Overall, the social-science arm of CRITiCaL offered a multi-faceted view on factors relating to cloud crime. Furthermore, the project established an open-source database of ransomware attacks and group behind them.

In terms of data science results, the project developed a range of sensors for larger machine learning systems, incl. underlying methodology on multitask learning, considering, for instance, network intrusion detection on multiple datasets, ransomware classification, human interaction on underground forums and community events, open source software community interactions, to detection of psychological states of users (e.g., depression). The core research in detection methods involved new data-science pipelines and related sampling methods. Those approaches led to further results quantum-computing-enabled optimization and intrusion detection as well as predictive analyses of stock markets. The project collected reusable cloud datasets of attack patterns discovered through honeypots, which are of independent interest for further research.
Exploitation Route In terms of impact, the project offers a criminological conceptualization of the relevant kinds of cybercrime as well as a psychological characterization of the stakeholders, all useful for further research. In that sense, the research and underpinning datasets can be taken forward by criminologists and social scientists in general as well as find application in policing.

Sensors and detection methods co-developed by the project can become public-facing tools, such as a Web site for ransomware classification. The tools available can be taken forward by a wide range of fields, incl. computer and cyber security (intrusion detection), human behavior analysis (e.g., of online communities), and market analysis.
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Government

Democracy and Justice

 
Description The impact of the project contributed to improving public services in relation to National Crime Agency and regional police forces, informing 1. how this research can impact the 4Ps (Prepare, Protect, Prevent, Prosecute) 2. how social sciences research can support policing, especially with regards to perpetrator escalation and engagement with victims, and social-science characterization of cascading cyber crimes. 3. how research interacts with policing and interviewing conducted by police forces. The project created further scientific and societal impact through the spin-out of specialized projects, especially, the in the detection and combat of ransomware. In this area, the project contributed to a ransomware database and analysis tool that can be used by the general public and, thereby, contributed to the quality of life of citizens. Follow-up impact from this project includes advanced machine-learning and optimization methods that are reusable for the effectiveness of public services and quality of life, incl. a joint venture with a major corporation on quantum optimization in transport systems.
First Year Of Impact 2021
Sector Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy
Impact Types Cultural

Societal

Policy & public services

 
Description Informed the Parliamentary Joint Committee on National Security Strategy, House of Lords, 12 October, 2022 on 'Ransomware Offender Profiles and the Nature and Source of the threat'
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Participation in the 'The technologies of Human Trafficking', UNODC Working group, United Nations, Vienna 27-29 November, 2019
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Provided policy advice to the DG 'Development and Cooperation' of the European Union on matters of cyber capacity building as an internationally selected Member of the European Union Institute of Security Studies (EUISS) Task Force on Cyber Capacity Building.
Geographic Reach Europe 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
URL https://www.iss.europa.eu/content/towards-operational-guidance-eu%E2%80%99s-cyber-capacity-building-...
 
Description Human Dimensions of Cyber Security
Amount £915,946 (GBP)
Funding ID Stephen McGough: EP/P01187X/1, David Wall: EP/P011721/1, (main grant, PI Eerie Boiten: EP/P011772/1) 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2017 
End 03/2019
 
Title Automatic recognition of feeding and foraging behaviour in pigs using deep learning 
Description The file includes the following items: 1) Datasets used to train, validate and test the method.2) Code used to train and validate the method. More details about the datasets and code and provided in the below link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1537511020301707 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Automatic_recognition_of_feeding_and_foraging_behaviour_in_p...
 
Title Automatic recognition of feeding and foraging behaviour in pigs using deep learning 
Description The file includes the following items: 1) Datasets used to train, validate and test the method.2) Code used to train and validate the method. More details about the datasets and code and provided in the below link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1537511020301707 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Automatic_recognition_of_feeding_and_foraging_behaviour_in_p...
 
Title Explainable Machine Learning-driven Strategy for Automated Trading Pattern Extraction. A Case Study of CME Futures. Reproducibility package. 
Description This is a reproducibility package for "Explainable Machine Learning-driven Strategy for Automated Trading Pattern Extraction. A Case Study of CME Futures.". For the moment of submission the study is available at ArXiv: 2103.12419. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The dataset was used for trading pattern analysis in CME futures. 
URL https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Explainable_Machine_Learning-driven_Strategy_for_Automated_T...
 
Title Machine Learning Classification of Price Extrema Based on Market Microstructure and Price Action Features. A Case Study of S&P500 E-mini Futures. Reproducibility package 
Description Reproducibility package for "Machine Learning Classification of Price Extrema Based on Market Microstructure and Price Action Features. A Case Study of S&P500 E-mini Futures." AbstractThe study introduces an automated trading system for S&P500 E-mini futures (ES) based on state-of-the-art machine learning. Concretely: we extract a set of scenarios from the tick market data to train the models and further use the predictions to statistically assess the soundness of the approach. We define the scenarios from the local extrema of the price action. Price extrema is a commonly traded pattern, however, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study presenting a pipeline for automated classification and profitability evaluation. Additionally, we evaluate the approach in the simulated trading environment on the historical data. Our study is filling this gap by presenting a broad evaluation of the approach supported by statistical tools which make it generalisable to unseen data and comparable to other approaches. Please follow the instructions in the README.md file 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Machine_Learning_Classification_of_Price_Extrema_Based_on_Ma...
 
Title Machine Learning Classification of Price Extrema Based on Market Microstructure and Price Action Features. A Case Study of S&P500 E-mini Futures. Reproducibility package 
Description Reproducibility package for "Machine Learning Classification of Price Extrema Based on Market Microstructure and Price Action Features. A Case Study of S&P500 E-mini Futures."AbstractThe study introduces an automated trading system for S&P500 E-mini futures (ES) based on state-of-the-art machine learning. Concretely: we extract a set of scenarios from the tick market data to train the models and further use the predictions to statistically assess the soundness of the approach. We define the scenarios from the local extrema of the price action. Price extrema is a commonly traded pattern, however, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study presenting a pipeline for automated classification and profitability evaluation. Additionally, we evaluate the approach in the simulated trading environment on the historical data. Our study is filling this gap by presenting a broad evaluation of the approach supported by statistical tools which make it generalisable to unseen data and comparable to other approaches.Please follow the instructions in the README.md file 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The dataset was used for new machine learning models on market analysis. 
URL https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Machine_Learning_Classification_of_Price_Extrema_Based_on_Ma...
 
Title Machine learning-based detection of FLOSS version release events from Stack Overflow message data 
Description Reprodicibility package for "Machine learning-based detection of FLOSS version release events from Stack Overflow message data" paper. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Machine_learning-based_detection_of_FLOSS_version_release_ev...
 
Title Machine learning-based detection of FLOSS version release events from Stack Overflow message data 
Description Reprodicibility package for "Machine learning-based detection of FLOSS version release events from Stack Overflow message data" paper. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Machine_learning-based_detection_of_FLOSS_version_release_ev...
 
Title Machine learning-based detection of FLOSS version release events from Stack Overflow message data 
Description Reprodicibility package for "Machine learning-based detection of FLOSS version release events from Stack Overflow message data" paper. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2020 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Machine_learning-based_detection_of_FLOSS_version_release_ev...
 
Description Cloud crime with MET 
Organisation Metropolitan Police Service
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Initial agreement on joint efforts.
Collaborator Contribution Initial agreement on joint efforts.
Impact The collaboration is once commencing.
Start Year 2016
 
Description Cloud crime with NCA 
Organisation National Crime Agency
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Advising the NCA on technical and social aspects of cloud crime. Proposed a research agenda with multiple structured abstracts on forum data analysis.
Collaborator Contribution Offering understanding of the national strategy to address cyber crime and cloud crime. Requirements towards police user engagement. Data for further analysis.
Impact The outcomes of initial conversations have been captured in a results paper governed by David Wall. We've negotiated an information sharing agreement on forum data of interest to the NCA, to employ multiple research methods from machine learning and data mining as well as social sciences (criminology and psychology).
Start Year 2015
 
Description Developing Best Practice for Collecting Cybersecurity Data Interest Group (1st Meeting, 29 January) 
Organisation Alan Turing Institute
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution My colleague and I (as Turing Fellows) have worked together to form a TURING interest group called "Developing Best Practice for Collecting Cybersecurity Data" based upon some of the experiences and dissapointments in being unable to access data during the EMPHASIS project, We held our first meeting with various interested fellows, academics, government and policing agencies and industry representatives on the 20th December. Beforehand we published a short article/ posiiton piece (see Atapour-Abarghouei, A., McGough, S. and Wall, D.S. (2020) listed below). We are currently arranging a second meeting of the working group. This interest group is a follow through and is based upon an earlier group we organised and ran in June 2019.
Collaborator Contribution We wrote the proposal which brought in some funds for meetings (I could not enter this on the appropriate page) and we organised the meeting, and also co-wrote the position piece.
Impact The group is still on going but the position piece has been published as Atapour-Abarghouei, A., McGough, S. and Wall, D.S. (2020) 'Resolving the cybersecurity Data Sharing Paradox to scale up cybersecurity via a co-production approach towards data sharing,' Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Intelligence and Defense, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020) December 10-13. https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12709
Start Year 2020
 
Description Developing Best Practice for Collecting Cybersecurity Data Interest Group (1st Meeting, 29 January) 
Organisation Newcastle University
Department School of Computing Science
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution My colleague and I (as Turing Fellows) have worked together to form a TURING interest group called "Developing Best Practice for Collecting Cybersecurity Data" based upon some of the experiences and dissapointments in being unable to access data during the EMPHASIS project, We held our first meeting with various interested fellows, academics, government and policing agencies and industry representatives on the 20th December. Beforehand we published a short article/ posiiton piece (see Atapour-Abarghouei, A., McGough, S. and Wall, D.S. (2020) listed below). We are currently arranging a second meeting of the working group. This interest group is a follow through and is based upon an earlier group we organised and ran in June 2019.
Collaborator Contribution We wrote the proposal which brought in some funds for meetings (I could not enter this on the appropriate page) and we organised the meeting, and also co-wrote the position piece.
Impact The group is still on going but the position piece has been published as Atapour-Abarghouei, A., McGough, S. and Wall, D.S. (2020) 'Resolving the cybersecurity Data Sharing Paradox to scale up cybersecurity via a co-production approach towards data sharing,' Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Intelligence and Defense, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020) December 10-13. https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12709
Start Year 2020
 
Description GCHQ - NCSC 
Organisation Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution We establish the capability to run analyses for research projects, especially with a machine-learning methodology, on data with protective marking secret.
Collaborator Contribution GCHQ supported the creation of a secure environment, including expertise on design and accreditation.
Impact Secure computing facility for primarily impacting cloud crime research at first. The Secure Data Safe Haven was established and its physical setup accredited by the GCHQ accreditor to be secure to hold government-grade cryptographic devices. The system has been equipped with corresponding government-grade cryptographic devices following a formal GCHQ authorization.
Start Year 2015
 
Description Northumbria Police 
Organisation Northumbria Police
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Scoping analysis of police (ActionFraud) data to detect patterns in police data, especially towards problem profiles or causality in case files. Eventually, Northumbria Police decided to build up a machine learning capability in-house, after our discussions of possible benefits for classification and analysis.
Collaborator Contribution Briefing on police needs on data analysis and reporting.
Impact Initial meetings towards collaboration agreement. Decisions on building capacity in the Northumbria Police Force.
Start Year 2016
 
Description Sunderland Inhouse Cloud 
Organisation Sunderland City Council
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Deliver understanding of cloud crime on government in-house clouds, especially with the capacity to analyse business-process level incidents.
Collaborator Contribution Offers data to be analysed by the project.
Impact Initial conversations to date. Established a data exchange. Realized clusterings and machine learning analysis on Sunderland in-house cloud configuration data, identifying abnormal cases (computers, users) incl. factors such as services and apps setup.
Start Year 2015
 
Description "Next Generation Privacy for Smart Technologies" 33rd Annual BILETA Conference (10th April 2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact PROGRAMME BILETA CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (as at 6 April 2018)

"Digital Futures: places and people, technology and data"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://works.bepress.com/subhajitbasu/95/
 
Description 'AI and Cybercrime: balancing expectations with delivery!', Proceedings of ACM WebSci 2020 workshop on "Socio-technical AI systems for defence, cybercrime and cybersecurity", Southampton, July 7th. 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact This was a plenary speech at a prestigious conference in the field of study. It generated much interest and discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sem03/STAIDCC20_wall_slides_07_07_2020.pdf
 
Description 'Cybercrime Escalation: the increase in scalability and impact of cybercrime', West Yorkshire Police Independent Advisory Group on Cybercrime, 4 November 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a talk to a Police regional cybercrime independent advisory group
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description 'Cybercrime in the 21st Century', Talk and Interview Session with Kevin Sweeney, University College, Cork. 19 November 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I gave a brief talk and then was interviewed about my research by a member of academic staff at UCC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description 'The Challenges of Cybercrime in a Technology Dependent World: then along came Covid-19!', 15th International Conference on Internet, Law & Politics: Cybercrime: new threats, new responses, Barcelona, June 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a plenary speech on my research to an international conference. It generated interest in my research and also many questions from participants
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018,2020
URL https://youtu.be/XBPbkcujGh0
 
Description 'Today's Cybercrime Challenges: the increase in scalability and impact of cybercrime', ECU Law Assembly, Edith Cowan University, Joondalong Campus, 3 November. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This plenary speech was to an international workshop of policy makers, practioners and academics. It generated interest and communications about my research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.ecu.edu.au/schools/business-and-law/research/research-news/ecu-law-assembly
 
Description Anomaly Detection and Categorization Using Unsupervised Deep Learning (Invited Talk) GTC April 2016 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Discuss anomaly detection - Presentation by S.McGough
Possible Applications:
• Terrorist activity tracking
• Acting out of character, predicting activity
• Ship/Flight tracking data
• Hijacking, Flight deviations
• Police crime database
• Criminal profiling, acting out of character
• Unwanted information release
• Topic changes, specific damaging
subjects,(e.g Wiki Leaks)
• Student applications
• Identifying bogus attempts for visa
• Social media Tracking
• Social grooming, political persuasion
• Safety camera tracks
• Normal movements of people in area
• Illegal financial transactions
• Fraud, laundering
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://community.dur.ac.uk/stephen.mcgough/CV/Papers/2016/GTC_0.5-expanded.pdf
 
Description Anomaly Detection and Categorization Using Unsupervised Deep Learning: Deep Learning Meets TensorFlow Mega Meetup - Silicon Valley, CA (S.McGough) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Discuss anomaly detection - Presentation by S.McGough Possible Applications: • Terrorist activity tracking • Acting out of character, predicting activity • Ship/Flight tracking data • Hijacking, Flight deviations • Police crime database • Criminal profiling, acting out of character • Unwanted information release • Topic changes, specific damaging subjects,(e.g Wiki Leaks) • Student applications • Identifying bogus attempts for visa • Social media Tracking • Social grooming, political persuasion • Safety camera tracks • Normal movements of people in area • Illegal financial transactions • Fraud,laundering
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://community.dur.ac.uk/stephen.mcgough/CV/Papers/2016/TensorFlow_0.1-expanded.pdf
 
Description Applications of AI to security, energy efficiency and nature 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Invited talk at Research Computing Summer School 2019, Imperial College London, UK, Sep. 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.imperial.ac.uk/computational-methods/news-and-events/hpc-2019/
 
Description BDA4CID 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Cyber-attacks have posed real and wide-ranging threats for the information society. Detecting cyber-attacks becomes a challenge, not only because of the sophistication of attacks, but also because of the large scale and complex nature of today's IT infrastructures.

When significant amounts of data is collected from computer systems operations and monitoring, data science and intelligent advanced analytics are necessary to correlate, learn and mine, interpret and visualize such data. To mitigate existing cyber threats, it is important that cyber-attack detection and security analysis take advantage of data science and advanced analytics. Big data provides a systemic approach, from capturing of IT operation data, through data processing and event correlation, to anomaly detection and response decision.

This Workshop will focus on the cutting-edge developments from both academia and industry, with a particular emphasis on novel techniques to capture, store and process the big-data from a wide range of sources in monitoring IT infrastructures, and in particular on the methodologies and technologies which can be applied to correlate, learn and mine, interpret and visualize the cyber security data.

This workshop is timely and interesting for researchers, academics and practitioners in big data processing and analytics, cyber security, cyber defense, security analytics, data mining and machine learning of security data, security information and event management, along with anomaly detection. The workshop is very relevant to the big data community, especially data mining, machine learning, cycler physical systems, computational intelligence, and will bring forth a lively forum on this exciting and challenging area at the conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://siwn.org.uk/events/bda4cid/
 
Description BDA4CID 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Cyber-attacks have posed real and wide-ranging threats for the information society. Detecting cyber-attacks becomes a challenge, not only because of the sophistication of attacks, but also because of the large scale and complex nature of today's IT infrastructures. When significant amounts of data is collected from computer systems operations and monitoring, data science and intelligent advanced analytics are necessary to correlate, learn and mine, interpret and visualize such data. To mitigate existing cyber threats, it is important that cyber-attack detection and security analysis take advantage of data science and advanced analytics. Big data provides a systemic approach, from capturing of IT operation data, through data processing and event correlation, to anomaly detection and response decision. This Workshop will focus on the cutting-edge developments from both academia and industry, with a particular emphasis on novel techniques to capture, store and process the big-data from a wide range of sources in monitoring IT infrastructures, and in particular on the methodologies and technologies which can be applied to correlate, learn and mine, interpret and visualize the cyber security data. This workshop is timely and interesting for researchers, academics and practitioners in big data processing and analytics, cyber security, cyber defense, security analytics, data mining and machine learning of security data, security information and event management, along with anomaly detection. The workshop is very relevant to the big data community, especially data mining, machine learning, cycler physical systems, computational intelligence, and will bring forth a lively forum on this exciting and challenging area at the conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://bda4cid.github.io
 
Description Bankademia Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Participation in a banking and Academia summit between 15 academics and 15 banking executives/experts on possibilities of joint engagements and funding schemes. Networking.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Big data breaches: cloud-enabled (or law-assisted?) cybercrime' Cardiff 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda, 'Big data breaches: cloud-enabled (or law-assisted?) cybercrime', EurCrime 2017, European Society of Criminology, University of Cardiff, 15 September 2017, Cardiff.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Boiten, E. and Wall, D.S. (2017) 'WannaCry report shows NHS chiefs knew of security danger, but management took no action', The Conversation, 30 October, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A discussion of the April 2017 Wannacry attack on the NHS and how it was not a cybersecurity failure practicality, but a failure of cybersecurity management at the top level. Has received 6000 reads in The Conversation. Was also reproduced by Scientific American and about 15 other magazines.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://theconversation.com/wannacry-report-shows-nhs-chiefs-knew-of-security-danger-but-management-...
 
Description CPDP Conference - Brussels Jan 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda, 'On boundaries. In search for the essence of the right to the protection of personal data', 11th Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference (CPDP), 26 January 2018, Brussels.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Chaired Ransomware sessions at the Technologies of Crime, Justice and Security Conference, Leeds 19-20 March 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The activity was a 2 day workshop organised by the Cybercrime Research Group at Leeds University. Papers were presented (mostly on the EPSRC EMPHASIS and CRITICAL research projects) but also other academics. The audience was varied and discussed issues related to technology and crime.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Chaired the Interdisciplinary approaches on future cybercrime research, at the Future Directions in Cyber Crime Research, RISCS/ Home Office and National Cyber Security Centre Workshop, 30th November, London. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I chaired the Interdisciplinary approaches on future cybercrime research at the Future Directions in Cyber Crime Research. This was a RISCS/ Home Office and National Cyber Security Centre Workshop, 30th November, London.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Co-Organiser and Participant of "Machine learning and data challenges in ransomware and the cloud", Alan Turing Institute, British Library, London, 7th June 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a workshop organised with EMPHASIS project partners (Stephen McGough and Budi Arief) at the Alan Turing Institute (McGough and I are Turing Fellows). The workshop dealt with the issue of sharing data in research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/machine-learning-and-data-challenges-ransomware-and-cloud
 
Description Co-organised Turing Interest Group (with S, McGough) "Developing Best Practice for Collecting Cybersecurity Data", 2 December 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact I co-organised a Turing Interest Group "Developing Best Practice for Collecting Cybersecurity Data" with Dr Stephen McGough (a co-participant on the CRITICAL and EMPHASIS projects). It was held on 2 December and generated much interest and we have recieved requests from people interested in joining it. This is a Turing project but based upon the data collection experiences of the EMPHASIS and CRITICAL research projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/developing-best-practice-collecting-cybersecurity-...
 
Description Co-presenter on 'Modelling the Cybercrime Cascade Effect of Data Theft' at the IEEE Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO 2021) Sep 7 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The IEEE Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO 2021) is an interdisciplinary conference. We published a paper from this talk - Modelling the Cybercrime Cascade Effect in Data Crime (w. M.G Porcedda)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=128990
 
Description Coles-Kemp, L. and Wall, D.S. (2018) 'Cyber Security Scholarship: A Provocative and Critical look at the Science of Cybersecurity', RISCS Research Institute in the Science of Cyber Security, Friends Meeting House, London, 8th February 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The activitity was organised by the RISCS group to develop scientific research methods and interdisciplinary working
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.riscs.org.uk/
 
Description Collaboration meeting with NCA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Round Table discussion with NCA/NCCU in NCA Headquarters, representation of the centre by David Wall, Steve McGough, Aad van Moorsel, Thomas Gross
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Collaboration with GCHQ on Data Safe Haven 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Establishing an accredited data safe haven for research on confidential data, such as of NCA or regional police forces.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016,2017
 
Description Conceptualising Cybercrime Today: Happy Birthday WWW you are 25', 5th International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics, Sofitel, Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Australia 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2017) 'Conceptualising Cybercrime Today: Happy Birthday WWW you are 25', 5th International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics, Sofitel, Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Australia 18 July 201
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Conceptualising Cybercriminals Today' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2017) 'Conceptualising Cybercriminals Today', The TILT Lecture, (Tilburg University Institute of Law and Technology), Nederlands, 24th October.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Conference call with EMPHASIS on possible joint study 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Discussion between CRITiCaL and EMPHASIS on the possibility of a joint study/survey.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Connolly, A. and Wall, D. (2019) 'Hackers are making personalised ransomware to target the most profitable and vulnerable', The Conversation, 15 March, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact An article that discusses how ransomware attacks are now being personally aimed at the wealthy and those in positions of power in organisations to infiltrate them. Has received 10,000 reads.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/hackers-are-making-personalised-ransomware-to-target-the-most-profitable...
 
Description Connolly, L. and Wall, D.S. (2019) 'Cyber security: Think like the enemy', Computing, 16 July, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact An article which draws upon a larger piece of work published in Computers and Security to argue that cyber-security professionals need to get more cybercrime savvy about responsing to preventingn and mitigating crypto-ransomware attacks.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.computing.co.uk/opinion/3078977/cyber-security-think-like-the-enemy
 
Description Contributor and participant in the EU Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum Cybersecurity Community of Practice on Cybercrime and Ransomware, 14 December, 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a EU Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum Cybersecurity Community of Practice on Cybercrime and Ransomware, 14 December, 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Crime and Cloud Technologies: The problem of volume cybercrime, Panel 7.15, Cloud Crimes - European Society of Criminology, Cardiff 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Papadodimitraki, Y and Wall, D.S. (2017) Crime and Cloud Technologies: The problem of volume cybercrime, Panel 7.15, Cloud Crimes - European Society of Criminology, Cardiff, 15th Sept. 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Crime, Security, and Information Communication Technologies: The Changing Cybersecurity Threat Landscape and Implications for Regulation", Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law & Society (TELOS) 10th Anniversary Celebration, King's College London, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2017) "Crime, Security, and Information Communication Technologies: The Changing Cybersecurity Threat Landscape and Implications for Regulation", Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law & Society (TELOS) 10th Anniversary Celebration, King's College London, 30th June 201
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Cybercrime in Social Media by Sputnik International, see EU Needs Larger Budget, Int'l Cooperation to Tackle Cybercrime - Analysts, Sputnik International 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed about Cybercrime in Social Media by Sputnik International, see EU Needs Larger Budget, Int'l Cooperation to Tackle Cybercrime - Analysts, Sputnik International, 14 December 2017, https://sputniknews.com/europe/201712131059975500-eu-cybercrime-china-linkedin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://sputniknews.com/europe/201712131059975500-eu-cybercrime-china-linkedin
 
Description D S Wall 'Breaking the cybercrime chain', Third Annual Cybercrime Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact In future years we intend to focus on research that has been carried out using datasets provided by the Cybercrime Centre, but for this year we have once again organised a stellar group of invited speakers who are at the forefront of their fields. They will present various aspects of cybercrime from the point of view of criminology, law, security economics and policing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.cambridgecybercrime.uk/conference2018.html
 
Description D S Wall 'Developing an Interdisciplinary social science understanding Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2018) 'Developing an Interdisciplinary social science understanding Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks: WorkPackage 2, Progress Review of TAKEDOWN with the European Commission, 10-11 April 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description D S Wall Are Booter Services (Stressers) indicative of a new form of organised crime group online 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Musotto, R. and Wall, D.S. (2018) Are Booter Services (Stressers) indicative of a new form of organised crime group online? Paper given to the UNODC Linking Organized Crime and Cybercrime Conference, School of Global Studies, Hallym University, Chucheon, South Korea, 7-8 June 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.slideshare.net/RobertoMusotto/are-booter-services-stresses-indicative-of-a-new-form-of-o...
 
Description D S Wall Changes in the business model of creative arts: towards the theft of ideas as a cybercrime? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2018) 'Changes in the business model of creative arts: towards the theft of ideas as a cybercrime?', Panel 1151 Working Group on Law and Popular Culture, RCSL (Research Committee Sociology of Law), Lisbon, 10-13 September.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description D S Wall Crime/Terror Nexus workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This workshop is jointly organised by the Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research (SHOC) at RUSI and the newly created Sussex Terrorism and Extremism Research Network (STERN) at the University of Sussex. It brings together representatives from government, law enforcement agencies and academia to take stock of the current state of knowledge on the terrorism/organised crime nexus and discuss its implications for law enforcement in Europe.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://rusi.org/event/organised-crimeterror-nexus-workshop
 
Description D S Wall Cryptocurrency and Money Laundering Workshop, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Participant at the Cryptocurrency and Money Laundering Workshop, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Whitehall, London, 30 May 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description D S Wall Cybercrime in the Cloud Cloud Technologies and Cybercrime, to West Yorkshire Police, Independent Advisory Group on Cybercrime 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2019 (Policing) Cybercrime in the Cloud Cloud Technologies and Cybercrime, to West Yorkshire Police, Independent Advisory Group on Cybercrime, Moot Court Room, School of Law, University of Leeds, 10 Jan.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description D S Wall Economic Cybercrimes: international cooperation between police agencies, Cybercrime Workshop, United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
(CCPCJ) - 14 May 2018, Vienna - Cybercrime Workshop Theme: Criminal justice responses to prevent and counter cybercrime in all its
forms, including through the strengthening of cooperation at the
national and international levels
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CCPCJ/CCPCJ_Sessions/CCPCJ_27/Workshop_Programme_REV2_we...
 
Description D S Wall Linking up Academic Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The New Normal: Linking up Academic Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Research at Leeds, West Yorkshire Police, Independent Advisory Group on Cybercrime, Leeds University, 6th June 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description D S Wall Member and Participant on HMIC-FRS external reference group Cyber-dependent crime 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Member and Participant on HMIC-FRS external reference group Cyber-dependent crime, Vauxhall, London, 26 November, 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description D S Wall Observer at Expert Group Meeting on Cybercrime 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Open-ended intergovernmental expert group to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of cybercrime
Vienna, 3-5 April 2018
The outcome of the deliberations on the issue of cybercrime held during the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Criminal Prevention and Criminal Justice in 2010 was included in the Salvador Declaration on Comprehensive Strategies for Global Challenges: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and Their Development in a Changing World. The Economic and Social Council, in its resolution 2010/18, and the General Assembly, in its resolution 65/230, requested the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to establish, in line with paragraph 42 of the Salvador Declaration, an open-ended intergovernmental expert group, to be convened prior to the twentieth session of the Commission, to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of cybercrime and responses to it by Member States, the international community and the private sector, including the exchange of information on national legislation, best practices, technical assistance and international cooperation, with a view to examining options to strengthen existing and to propose new national and international legal or other responses to cybercrime.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/open-ended-intergovernmental-expert-group-to-conduct-...
 
Description D S Wall Organised Cybercrime, United Nations Expert Group on Cybercrime, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Participant, respondent and presenter on Organised Cybercrime, United Nations Expert Group on Cybercrime, meeting on the Cybercrime Curriculum Part 2, Tbilisi, Georgia, 20-23 November 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description D S Wall Recent developments in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity: impacts upon healthcare 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2018) "Recent developments in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity: impacts upon healthcare", Talk to the Bristol Medico-Legal Society, 10 May, 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description D S Wall United Nations Expert Group on Cybercrime 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Participant and presenter, United Nations Expert Group on Cybercrime, meeting on the Cybercrime Curriculum, United Nations Centre, Vienna, 28-31 August 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description D S Wall and M G Porcedda Conference Legal Aspects of Data Science 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The conference is a flagship event for the Data Science and Law Research Network, a joint project between Tilburg University, the University of Osnabrück and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. It aims to launch research collaboration between leading experts and younger, upcoming scholars conducting research on comparative law, regulation, technology, and issues related to the data society in which we live. It also aims to include practicing lawyers and other professionals with an interest in the legal aspects of data science. The conference intends to facilitate an exchange of expertise and establish a shared research agenda in the longer term.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/events/show/event-conference-legal-aspects-of-data-science...
 
Description D S Wall, M G Porcedda and P Briggs Technologies of Crime, Justice and Security Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The event brings together more than 30 leading European academics and practitioners with diverse backgrounds, ranging from Sociology and Law to Economics and Computer Science. The conference will begin with opening remarks by the Head of School, Professor Alastair Mullis, the Head of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies (CCJS), Professor Louise Ellison, and the conference co-organiser Professor David Wall.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/events/event/90/technologies-of-crime-justice-and-security-conference
 
Description Data Analytics Group (NVIDIA's GPU Workshop) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Data Analytics Group - NVIDIA' GPU Programming and Machine Learning Workshop.. invited talk by Noura Al Moubayed, Stephen McGough, Stephen Bonner, John Brennan, Amit Gajbhiye, Becky Allen, Abdulla Sheikh
interactive discussion. presentations, further collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Data, AI and Security 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact In 2019 data breaches are predicted to be the most prevalent form of attack against industry. Ransomware along with DDoS attacks, which attack or disrupt data flows, are close behind in the pecking order. Yet, on the other side, the digital data relating to the circumstances of those attacks is vital for identifying what went wrong and analysing how to improve systems so that similar problems do not occur again.

There is a massive challenge to get hold of such data, which would be used to learn how to make systems safer, due to:

Concerns and some misunderstandings about confidentiality, especially post-GDPR.
A general commercial reluctance to announce losses.
A heightened level of suspicion following a data breach about how and where their data goes.
The additional human and financial resources that participation in research can require of an organisation, particularly after a breach.
It is therefore not surprising that organisations are reluctant to participate in projects and share their experiences and any data that could be invaluable to the research mission.

This climate of distrust is unlikely to change without the establishment of common protocols and shared best practice for the anonymisation and safe sharing of data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/machine-learning-and-data-challenges-ransomware-and-cloud
 
Description Digilantism: Digital Vigilantes and Covert Policing Online', Privacy 7: Panel - Covert Policing in the Digital Age, TILTing perspectives 201 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2017) 'Digilantism: Digital Vigilantes and Covert Policing Online', Privacy 7: Panel - Covert Policing in the Digital Age, TILTing perspectives 2017, Regulating a connected world, 17-19 May 2017, Tilburg, The Netherland
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Double jeopardy: Are universities becoming the new target for cybercriminals and spies? (Computing Magazine) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact During their attempts to recover from the Covid-19 lockdown recent attacks on both Newcastle Universities and others in the UK have highlighted how exposed the university sector is to cyberattacks. They are particularly vulnerable to Ransomware, which encrypts operating systems and steals data before extorting ransom payments to return the system to normal.

An analysis of a database of over 1650 attacks illustrates the modern cybercrime problem (EPSRC EP/M020576/1/ EP/P011772/1). It shows that there has been a suprising decline in attacks on the public sector this year during lockdown, especially healthcare. Yet, there has been a marked rise in attacks on the private sector. Interestingly, the analysis also indicates an increase in attacks upon large and complex businesses, which include Universities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.computing.co.uk/opinion/4020075/double-jeopardy-universities-target-cybercriminals-spies
 
Description Engagement workshop with NCA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Visit of Prof. David Wall to NCA to scope activities for Northern Cloud Crime Centre
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description European Society of Criminology (ESC), Univ. Malaga, 22 September 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Gave a talk on the geo-conflict actors using ransomware.
Wall, D.S. (2022) 'Ransomware goes to war: the perfect storm of cybercrime, politics, extortion, theft and disruption, European Society of Criminology (ESC), Univ. Malaga, 22 September 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.eurocrim2022.com/
 
Description Experts meeting on Brexit and Internal Security, 30 June 2017Aston University, Birmingham. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda 'From AFSJ opt-outs to AFSJ opt-ins', Experts meeting on Brexit and Internal Security, 30 June 2017Aston University, Birmingham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Formal Negotiation with NCA on Information Sharing Agreement 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Negotiation to finalize Information Sharing Agreement with the National Crime Agency (NCA)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description GCHQ Workshop on Establishment of Secure Data Safe Haven 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The meeting was to prepare the creation of a secure data centre, inter alia meant to enable work on law enforcement data with protective marking, such as from the NCA or other police forces.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description GCHQ on Data Safe Haven 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Three experts from GCHQ have visited Newcastle University for a number of full-day or two-day workshops to discuss and inform the design and realisation of a secure data safe haven, meant to build a capability to analyse data with protective marking 'secret'. The visits were insightful, spawned questions and technical discussions and yielded a deeper understanding of technology and research procedures needed for the EPSRC Contrails Centre CRITiCaL.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014,2015,2016
 
Description GCHQ/NCSC Meeting to establish cryptographic capacities of the Secure Data Safe Haven 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Establishing the final security mechanisms of the Secure Data Safe Haven.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description GPU Technology Conference May 2017 (GTC2017), San Jose 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is the premier
AI and deep learning event, providing you with training, insights, and direct access to experts NVIDIA and other leading organizations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://gputechconf2017.smarteventscloud.com/connect/search.ww#loadSearch-searchPhrase=&searchType=s...
 
Description Gave a talk on 'The challenges of cybercrime for policing', TRANSCRIME, , Catholic University of Milan, Italy, 19-22 Septermber, 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The presentation was part of the TRANSCRIME, Catholic University of Milan's International PhD Programme
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Gave a talk on Ransomware and Extortion at the Public Policy Exchange Webinar: Tackling Serious and Organised Crime, Milbank, 21 November, 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Gave talk on Ransomware and Extortion at the Public Policy Exchange Webinar: Tackling Serious and Organised Crime, Milbank, 21 November, 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Gave talk and chaired a conference session on online Serious and Organised Crime at the RUSI Serious and Organised Crime Conference 2023, 61 Whitehall, London, 4th-5th December. (Security Minister and Shadow Security minister present at conference). 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Gave talk and chaired a conference session on online Serious and Organised Crime at the RUSI Serious and Organised Crime Conference 2023, 61 Whitehall, London, 4th-5th December. (Security Minister and Shadow Security minister present at conference).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://my.rusi.org/events/serious-and-organised-crime-conference-2023.html
 
Description Gave talk on 'Cybercrime and the transformation of crime in the information age', at TRANSCRIME, Catholic University of Milan, Italy. 19-22 September, 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This presentation was part of the TRANSCRIME, Catholic University of Milan international PhD programme
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Global Meeting on Law and Society, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, July 13-16, 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Panel on contemporary cultures and law, at the Meeting of the Law and Society Association
Wall, D.S. (2022) 'Cybercrime and the New Culture of Fear', Global Meeting on Law and Society, ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal, July 13-16, 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.lawandsociety.org/2022globalmeetinglisbon/
 
Description Goldsmith, A. and Wall, D.S. (2017) The Seduction of Cybercrime, paper given at the Illicit Networks (IX) Policing Flows (III) Conference, Flinders University, Adelaide South Australia 11-13 December. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This joint talk was to the Illicit Criminal Networks and Policing Flows conference in Adelaide Australia
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Good Ransomware and Bad Ransomware, but which is which? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation to the North East Fraud Forum
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.northeastfraudforum.co.uk/neff-events/past-event-downloads/
 
Description High-profile meeting with Northumbria Police on Causality Reasoning and Pattern Detection 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conversation on collaboration on pattern detection on police data.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description How might Crime-Scripts be used to Support the Under-standing and Policing of Cloud Crime?', Multidisciplinary approaches to cloud crime panel, published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Warren, S., Briggs, P., Oxburgh, G. & Wall, D. (2017) 'How might Crime-Scripts be used to Support the Under-standing and Policing of Cloud Crime?', Multidisciplinary approaches to cloud crime panel, published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada 9-14 July 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description I was an expert panel member on a (UKRI funded) Cybercrime Hackathon (8, 10, 15 Feb. 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact I took part in 3 meetings and talked about my research then listened to presentations and took part in the final panel to decide upon a winner of the challenge.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description IEEE Big Data 2017 December 2017 Boston, MA 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact IEEE Big Data 2017 December 2017 Boston, MA
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017
 
Description IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, Orlando Florida, USA 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Short paper entitled 'UniGuard: Protecting Unikernels using Intel SGX', to be delivered by Thomas Gross and Ioannis Sfyrakis at the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering. 17th - 20th APril 2018, Orlando, Florida.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2018/accepted_papers.htm
 
Description Identifying Changes in the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape using the LDA-Web Topic Modelling Data Search Engine', published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Al-Moubayed, N., Wall, D. & McGough, S. (2017) 'Identifying Changes in the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape using the LDA-Web Topic Modelling Data Search Engine', published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada 9-14 July 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Initial NCA workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Two leaders of the National Crime Agency (NCA) visited Newcastle University for an exchange on strategies on engaging cyber and cloud crime, leading up to agreements on further user engagement. This led to future focus areas for the collaboration with the NCA
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Initial Workshop with Financial Conduct Authority 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Initial meeting to present research topics of the ACE-CSR and CRITiCaL in financial areas, negotiation on topics of joint interest.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Internet of Everything': The inevitable end of Privacy? International Conference on Current Trends in Higher Education in India 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact It is a Keynote Lecture, more 700 people attended this International Conference, including Ministers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/news/article/958/dr-subhajit-basu-delivers-keynote-lecture-at-the-inter...
 
Description Interview by BBC Online about Police Blunders. Quoted in "Police blunders that made the headlines" 12 February, 2017, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interview about police blunders and how social media are exacerbating them
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38861475
 
Description Interview with BBC Breakfast News (National) on Ransomware. Shown 28th November 2016 on Breakfast TV and also shown on BBC Lunchtime news and other new programmes throughout the day. Plus, a variation for Look North. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The TV interview discussed Ransomware and how to obtain it. It was broadcast nationally and regionally at various points during the day.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Interview with Bethan Bell BBC News about counterfeits. See Bell, B. (2016) 'What's wrong with buying fake luxury goods?', BBC News Online, 15 July, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This interview was about the online sale of fake goods
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36782724
 
Description Interview with Radio Sputnik (Friday 26 July, 2019) and published in Sputnik News. Sputnik (2019) ''Ransomware Preys On All Aspects of Our Social, Economic, Political, Even Sexual Lives' - Professor', Sputnik News, 26 July, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Radio podcast and press Interview with Radio Sputnik (Friday 26 July, 2019) and published in Sputnik News.
Sputnik (2019) ''Ransomware Preys On All Aspects of Our Social, Economic, Political, Even Sexual Lives' - Professor', Sputnik News, 26 July,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201907261076373243-ransomware-preys-on-all-aspects-of-our-social-ec...
 
Description Interview with Radio Sputnik and Sputnik News about the National Cyber Security Centre's Internet Fraud Successes - 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interview with Radio Sputnik and Sputnik News about the National Cyber Security Centre's Internet Fraud Successes -
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201910231077130713-public-has-to-be-more-aware-of-various-fraudulen...
 
Description Interview with Robert Elms on the "increase in organisations and government bodies having their data held to ransom", BBC Radio London (and syndicated) (Tuesday 13th August 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interview with Robert Elms on the "increase in organisations and government bodies having their data held to ransom", BBC Radio London (and syndicated) (Tuesday 13th August 2019)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Interviewed Radio York Breakfast time, on Crime and the Darkweb 8am, 26th September, 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed Radio York Breakfast time, on Crime and the Darkweb 8am, 26th September, 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Interviewed about Cybercrime Statistics, BBC TV Victoria Derbyshire Show, 10.35, Thursday 26 April 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interviewed about Cybercrime Statistics, BBC TV Victoria Derbyshire Show, 10.35, Thursday 26 April 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Interviewed about Cybercrime in Social Media by Sputnik International, see EU Needs Larger Budget, Int'l Cooperation to Tackle Cybercrime - Analysts, Sputnik International, 14 December, 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interviewed about Cybercrime in Social Media by Sputnik International, see EU Needs Larger Budget, Int'l Cooperation to Tackle Cybercrime - Analysts, Sputnik International, 14 December,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Interviewed about Data Breaches (Sheffield Credit Union), BBC TV Look North, 8 May, 2018. 6pm & 10.30pm - 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interviewed about Data Breaches (Sheffield Credit Union), BBC TV Look North, 8 May, 2018. 6pm & 10.30pm -
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Interviewed about ransomware attacks on Universities for Research Professional News 9 Sept 2020. See McIntyre, F. (2020) Universities should treat cybersecurity like an 'arms race', Research Professional News, 9 Sept., 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact We discussed the increase in ransomware attacks upon Universities and the impact on students and staff as well as the funders of the research whose work was stolen
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk/universities/2020/9/Universities-should-treat-cybe...
 
Description Interviewed by Al Jazeera TV News about Cybercrimes under the Covid 19 lockdown (11.15-11.45, 5th June, 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Discussed the new tactics used by cybercriminals which exploit work at home arrangements to victimise teh public and also organisations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Interviewed by Radio Leeds on the Darkweb at 5pm Monday 25th September 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed by Radio Leeds on the Darkweb at 5pm Monday 25th September 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Interviewed by Radio York Breakfast time, on Crime (such as Ransomware) and the Darkweb 8am, 26th September, 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interviewed by Radio York Breakfast time, on Crime (such as Ransomware) and the Darkweb 8am, 26th September, 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Interviewed by Sarah Jane Mee on the Sky Sunrise programme about Policing and Terrorism, 24th May 2017, 08:35 AM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed by Sarah Jane Mee on the Sky Sunrise programme about Policing and Terrorism, 24th May 2017, 08:35 AM - transcript at https://article.signalmedia.co/ef484066-d0f9-44bb-8b59-a75d88fb7a9c?u=194b50e5-1cf0-486c-8184-247d81d36d50?igin=repor
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Interviewed by The Register about seizing cryptocurrency as the proceeds ransomware crime. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interviewed by The Register about seizing cryptocurrency as the proceeds ransomware crime
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/30/cps_cryptocurrency_confiscation/
 
Description Interviewed by The Sun about cyber-sleuths cited in 1st June 2020 article - CYBER SLEUTHS We're 'armchair detectives' investigating grim cold cases from home - from serial killer victims to mystery 'tent girl', 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact We discussed the use of CYBER SLEUTHS / armchair detectives to assist the police to investigate cold cases from their own homes
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11593868/amateur-detectives-dleuths-solve-crimes-cold-cases-home/
 
Description Interviewed by Yorkshire Post on 'Policing the internet: cyber-security and the dark web, and the developing experience we have here at the University and across Yorkshire' 19th September 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interviewed by Yorkshire Post on 'Policing the internet: cyber-security and the dark web, and the developing experience we have here at the University and across Yorkshire' 19th September 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Interviewed by Yorkshire Post on 'Policing the internet: cyber-security and the dark web, and the developing experience we have here at the University and across Yorkshire' 19th September 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed by Yorkshire Post on 'Policing the internet: cyber-security and the dark web, and the developing experience we have here at the University and across Yorkshire' 19th September 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Interviewed by the BBC TV News on buying drugs on the Darkweb for broadcast on Look North - 6.30 pm Monday 25th September 2017. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interviewed by the BBC TV News on buying drugs and ransomware on the Darkweb for broadcast on Look North and also later on national TV - 6.30 pm Monday 25th September 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Interviewed by the BBC TV News on buying drugs on the Darkweb for broadcast on Look North - 6.30 pm Monday 25th September 2017. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed by the BBC TV News on buying drugs on the Darkweb for broadcast on Look North - 6.30 pm Monday 25th September 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Interviewed by the Metro News Magazine about research in relation to event 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact I was interviewed and quoted by the Metro about a surveilance application that found stolen phones 6,000 miles away in China. 2 February, 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/02/find-my-iphone-app-discovers-stolen-phones-6000-miles-away-in-china-1...
 
Description Invited talk at Durham University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Yu Guan was invited to give a talk "Machine Learning for Behaviour analysis" at Department of Computer Science, Durham University. The audiences are mainly the researchers in the computer science department (PhDs, Postdocs, faculty members).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://sites.durham.ac.uk/icg/event/icg-seminar-dr-yu-guan-newcastle-university/
 
Description Keynote speech 'Ransomware, the 'perfect storm' of cybercrime: Encryption, extortion, data theft, organised crime and business priorities', Keynote speech to the 12TH COUNTER FRAUD, CYBERCRIME AND FORENSIC ACCOUNTING CONFERENCE, Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime, University of Portsmouth, 14-15 June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Gave a keynote speech to a conference of influential participants from a range of sectors that influence policy in a number of different ways.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/events/counter-fraud-cybercrime-and-forensic-accounting...
 
Description Keynote speech at ANZSOC - Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Darwin, Australia, 26-30 November, 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Gave the keynote speech on The Transformation of Cybercrime (and Criminology) in the 2020s:Ransomware evolutions' to the ANZSOC - Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Darwin, Australia, 26-30 November, 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://anzsocconference.com.au/
 
Description Keynote speech on 'Online Harms: Cybercrime - The Gift that Keeps on Taking', Keynote speech to the Continuum of Online/Offline Harm Conference 2023, Nottingham Trent University, 6th July 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact This conference brought together the disciplines of offline and online harm with a focus on victimisation which considers the continuum of harm that permeates across them (quote from the web page).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2023/7/continuum-of-onlineoffline-harm-conference-2023
 
Description Komsky, J. (2017) 'All Hands on Deck for Cybercrime Regulation', The Regulatory Review, 22 November, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact An article about my own work on cybercrime
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.theregreview.org/2017/11/22/komsky-cybercrime-regulation/
 
Description Law School Workshop, Trinity College Dublin, 1 Nov. 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Gave a talk on Serious and Organised CyberCrime: The continued rise of ransomware and data theft to the Law School at Trinity College Dublin, 1 Nov. 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description M G Porcedda 2018 Legal Technology North Conference,Tech North 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Invited to contribute to the panel "Cybersecurity". The conference gathered legal practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description M G Porcedda 6th Annual Privacy Forum, European Network and Information Security Agency 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact • June 2018, 6th Annual Privacy Forum, European Network and Information Security Agency and Polytechnic of Catalonia, Barcelona
Presentation "'Privacy By Design' in EU Law. Matching Privacy Protection Goals with the Essence of the Rights to Private Life and Data Protection". The conference gathered stakeholders from the information security community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa-news/enisa-annual-privacy-forum-2018-shaping-technology-aroun...
 
Description M G Porcedda E-privacy Conference, 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited to contribute to panel discussion "Aligning Digital Communication Capabilities with Data Protection Law after Brexit".The conference gathered data protection and information security practitioners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description M G Porcedda West Yorkshire Police Cyber Independent Advisory Group January 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Presentation "The Cascade Effect in Cybercrime".The cyber independent Advisory Group gathers stakeholders from the community fighting against cybecrime
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Meeting with BAe 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Scoping meeting with presentation of ACE-CSR and CRITiCaL portfolio to evaluate possible strategic partnership with BAe.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Meeting with CLUE 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Conversation on possible collaborations with CRITiCaL and the ACE-CSR, liaison with police forces.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Meeting with NCA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conversation of Prof. David Wall with NCA to scope research activities and develop the Centre's research aims wrt. police forces.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Meeting with Northumbria Police on Possible Collaborations 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact We hosted a workshop with Northumbria Police discussion multiple possible avenues for research engagements with CRITiCaL as well as the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Meeting with Northumbria Police to Discuss Possible Avenues for Collaboration 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Establishing a list of possible collaborations based on a number of research projects of the ACE-CSR and CRITiCaL.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Musotto, R. and Wall, D. (2019) 'Facebook's push for end-to-end encryption is good news for user privacy, as well as terrorists and paedophiles', The Conversation, 16 December 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact An article about Facebook's plan to introduce end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services to increase privacy levels. Australian, British and United States governments and law makers are opposed to it and fear it will make it impossible to recover criminal conversations from Facebook's platforms, thus offering impunity to offenders. But has Facebook been placed between a political rock and an ethical hard place? Has received 6000 reads.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/facebooks-push-for-end-to-end-encryption-is-good-news-for-user-privacy-a...
 
Description Musotto, R. and Wall, D.S. (2019) Online Crime-Terror Networks, TAKEDOWN Final Research Meeting, Valencia, 17-18 June 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This was a talk to the final meeting of another project I am invilved with, but drew heavily upon work on cybercrime from the EMPHASIS and CRITICAL projects
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description NCA Social Sciences Focus group 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 5 members of the National Crime Agency (NCA) and National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) have participated in a user engagement workshop with the social sciences arm of the project, investigating how to approach cloud crime from a social sciences angle. The primary outcome is a report on this dialogue, topics for further collaboration and key research questions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description NEFF 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact A talk on the types of Ransomware that are out there, the impact that they could have and techniques for identifying them.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Negotiation with Sunderland Council on Data Exchange, based on Structured Abstract 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact We proposed a structured abstract of an research endeavor to Sunderland Council and reached an agreement on a first data exchange for Machine Learning Analysis.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Nothing like the mafia: cybercriminals are much like the everyday, poorly paid business worker (The Conversation) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact New research is questioning the popular notion that cybercriminals can make millions of dollars from the comfort of home - and without much effort. Our paper, published in the journal Trends in Organised Crime, suggests offenders who illegally sell cybercrime tools to other groups aren't promised automatic success. Indeed, the "crimeware-as-a-service" market is a highly competitive one. To succeed, providers have to work hard to attract clients and build up their criminal business. They must combine their skills and employ business acumen to attract (and profit from) other cybercriminals wanting their "services". And the tactics they use more closely resemble a business practice playbook than a classic Mafia operation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://theconversation.com/nothing-like-the-mafia-cybercriminals-are-much-like-the-everyday-poorly-...
 
Description Parliamentary Joint Committee on National Security Strategy, House of Lords, 12 October 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Gave a briefing on my ransomware research (Ransomware Offender Profiles and the Nature and Source of the threat) to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on National Security Strategy, House of Lords, 12 October
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Participant and contributor to the RISCS Ransomware workshop, Improving the UK's resilience to ransomware, UCL, Online, 2nd December, 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact This RISCS Improving the UK's resilience to ransomware workshop was intended to help the organisers develop a survey tool.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Participant and presenter "Experiences and Expectations of Social Data in Cybersecurity", RISCS policy workshop: Optimising the use of UK government survey data on cyber security, 22nd July 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Participant "Experiences and Expectations of Social Data in Cybersecurity, RISCS policy workshop: Optimising the use of UK government survey data on cyber security, 22nd July 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.riscs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/POLICY_NOTE_QUANTIFICATION.pdf
 
Description Participant at the UNODC Cybercrime Experts Group meeting Vienna 26-29 March 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I participated in the expert group as an official UK observer
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/open-ended-intergovernmental-expert-group-to-conduct-...
 
Description Participant in the Friends of Europe "What does the UK's Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy mean for Euro-Atlantic cooperation?", Tuesday, 30 March 2021. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Participant in the Friends of Europe "What does the UK's Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy mean for Euro-Atlantic cooperation?",
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.friendsofeurope.org/insights/what-does-the-uks-integrated-review-of-security-defence-dev...
 
Description Participation as an advisor in the General meeting of the ACOPS project, Dutch National Police (hi-tec crime unit), 25-27 Sept. 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Participation as an advisor and respondent at the General meeting of the ACOPS project, Dutch National Police (hi-tec crime unit), 25-27 Sept. 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Participation in closed meeting at the Home Office Artificial Intelligence and Fraud workshop with the Security Minister (side event of the AI Safety Summit). RUSI (Royal United Services Institute), Whitehall, London, 31 October, 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Participation in closed meeting at the Home Office Artificial Intelligence and Fraud workshop with the Security Minister (side event of the AI Safety Summit). RUSI (Royal United Services Institute), Whitehall, London, 31 October, 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Participation in the UNODC Expert Panel on Cybercirme 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Participation in the Second intersessional consultation of the Ad Hoc Committee, Vienna, 13 and 14 June 2022
"In paragraph 2 of resolution 74/247, the General Assembly decided to establish the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes. Furthermore, in paragraph 10 of resolution 75/282, the General Assembly further decided to encourage the Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee to host intersessional consultations to solicit inputs from a diverse range of stakeholders on the elaboration of the draft convention. In accordance with resolution 75/282 and the "Road map and mode of work for the Ad Hoc Committee", annexed to the report of the first session of the Ad Hoc Committee, and paragraph 4 of the "Modalities of the participation of multi-stakeholders in the Ad Hoc Committee", annexed to the report of the Ad Hoc Committee's session on organizational matters, the second intersessional consultation was held on 13 and 14 June 2022 in Vienna, Austria."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/cybercrime/ad_hoc_committee/intersessional-consultations/2nd-interses...
 
Description Participation on Collaborative Approaches against Cybercrime, 5th International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics, Sofitel, Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Australia 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Participation on Collaborative Approaches against Cybercrime, 5th International Conference on Cybercrime and Computer Forensics, Sofitel, Broadbeach, Gold Coast, Australia 17, July 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Porcedda, M.G. and Wall, D.S. (2019) 'Cascade and Chain Effects in Big Data Cybercrime: Lessons from the TalkTalk hack', proceedings of WACCO 2019: 1st Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations, IEEE Euro S&P 2019, Stockholm, Sweden, 20 June 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This was an invited talk to a conference about hackers and is linked to work done for CRITiCAL and drew on examples from EMPHASIS
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://wacco-workshop.eu/past/2019/index.html
 
Description Porcedda, M.G. and Wall, D.S. (2019) Big Data Crime and the Cascading Effect, CRITiCal/ Emphasis meeting, 3 May, Leeds 2-3 May 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact My colleagu and I addressed a meeting organised to share research results to a mainly academic audience
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Presentation and coordination "Threats and opportunities for AI in cybersecurity working group (1st Meeting)" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The activity was a Turing cybersecurity working group (1st Meeting)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/developing-best-practice-collecting-cybersecurity-...
 
Description Presentation to the North East Fraud Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation to ~50 people at the North East Fraud Forum.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Presented a paper on "Ransomware as a Serious Organised CyberCrime - Ransomware, Covid and Observations for Law Enforcement" to Nederland National Police, Nov 4, 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was a Netherlands National Police/ PWC Cybercrime COPS Workshop, London, Nov. 4th, 2021 to explore joint ways of responding to ransomware
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Presented paper on "Ransomware as a modern cybercrime" at the Cyber Crime and Digital Forensics panel of Kent Cyber Security Forum (KCSF 2021), 22 July 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Kent Cyber Security Forum (KCSF 2021), Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), University of Kent
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://research.kent.ac.uk/cyber/kcsf2021/
 
Description Presented paper on The Transnational Cybercrime Extortion Landscape and The Pandemic: Changes in offender tactics, attack scalability and the organisation of offending", CEPOL (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training) Annual Research Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Featured Presentation 16.00, 5 May 2021. https://conference.cepol.europa.eu/cepol-online-conference-2021/talk/DBR7WE/

CEPOL (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training) Annual Research Conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://conference.cepol.europa.eu/cepol-online-conference-2021/talk/DBR7WE/
 
Description Provenance 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk about the use of Provenance security and machine learning.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Provenance, AI and proof in court 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Talk at the Alan Turing workshop on Provenance, Security and Machine Learning
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/provenance-security-machine-learning
 
Description Public Seminar for the 30th anniversary of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies Perspectives on the Future of Cybercrime, School of Law Leeds 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda, 'Big data breaches: cloud-enabled (or law-assisted?) cybercrime', Public Seminar for the 30th anniversary of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies Perspectives on the Future of Cybercrime, School of Law, University of Leeds 6 November 2017, Leeds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Radio interview 'On the Aire' programme on Made in LeedsTV, 6pm Thursday 19th January 2017 about the latest Cybercrime statistics https://www.madeinleeds.tv/ 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Radio interview to discuss the latest Cybercrime statistics
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Radio interview with BBC Radio Leeds on the Talk Talk case, 5.30pm, 23rd October 2015 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Discussed developments in Cybersecurity after the TalkTalk case
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
 
Description Radio interview with Radio Leeds on the Darkweb and buying ransomware and drugs at 5pm Monday 25th September 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Interviewed by Radio Leeds on buying ransomware and drugs on the Darkweb at 5pm Monday 25th September 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Ransomware Workshop, Office of Digital Government, Government of Western Australia, Perth, 16th November, 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Gave a presentation at a Ransomware Workshop at the Office of Digital Government, Government of Western Australia, Perth, 16th November, 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Research portfolio meeting with Northumbria Police 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Overview of relevant research to Northumbria Police (leads: Michael Barton and Melanie Morters), in the areas of Protect and Prevent, especially for problem profiles and interventions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Sentiment Analysis Through the Use of Unsupervised Deep Learning - GPU Technology Conference, May 2017 Silicon Valley, CA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact (Stephen McGough, Noura Al Moubayed) Invited as Keynote Speakers to give talk on Sentiment Analysis Through the Use of Unsupervised Deep Learning
Discussion afterwards & networking leading to future collaboration & engagement
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.gputechconf.com/
 
Description Technologies of Crime, Justice and security Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact ~50 people interested in Crime, Justice and Security. Presenting techniques for using AI to help practitioners in these areas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Television Interview with ITV Calendar News (Yorkshire) about the Cyberattack on Lincoln Hospital. 1st November, 2016. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Discussing the implications of the cyberattack on Lincoln Hospital
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2016
 
Description Television Interview with Sarah Jane Mee on the Sky Sunrise programme about Policing, Terrorism and radicalisation, 24th May 2017, 08:35 AM 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Television Interview with Sarah Jane Mee on the Sky Sunrise programme about Policing, Terrorism and Radicalisation via internet, 24th May 2017, 08:35 AM. The URL link to it no longer works.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description The "Old" and "New" Private Security Industry and the Public/Private Nexus, Brunel University, 10 June, 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2022) ' Ransomware and the Cybersecurity Paradox: private versus public interests?', The "Old" and "New" Private Security Industry and the Public/Private Nexus, Brunel University, 10 June, 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2022/The-Old-and-New-Private-Security-Industry-and-t...
 
Description The 1st e-Crime & Artificial Intelligence Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact International Conference with Key themes:
Improving web security
AI in core network security
AI's role in defending against malicious insiders
Evaluating AI and machine learning solutions
AI in identity and access management
Understanding AI, machine learning, deep learning and neural nets
Deploying AI solutions
AI in alert prioritization and data analysis
Mallet against machine: regulating the AI landscape
Subhajit Basu, Associate Professor, Cyber Law, University of Leeds
• In order to make automation effective, feeding a vast amount of data is necessary. How do you ensure that this data is used in a secure
way and for the right purposes?
• What are the legal implications if a machine learning platform gets hacked?
• The connected landscape needs greater regulation. But how do you implement this, especially when there is a stigma that 'lawyers
don't understand technology and technology professionals don't understand the law'!
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://works.bepress.com/subhajitbasu/97
 
Description The Criminal misuse of Cryptocurrencies as an evolving problem: Empirical Evidence 25 February, 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact The paper looked at the Criminal misuse of Cryptocurrencies as an evolving problem and explored the available Empirical Evidence which draws upon databases built up at Leeds for the EPSRC Emphasis and Contrails project. The paper argues that cryptocurrencies have evolved crime in three ways to create cryptocrimes. They assist and enable existing crimes and also are the focus of new types of crime. Policy and practice responses should differ according to each type of cryptocrime.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://wwwen.uni.lu/index.php/fdef/news/cryptocurrencies_and_crime_building_regulation_and_enforcem...
 
Description The Darkweb & The Weaponisation of Data? - A new crime-terror nexus online?' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2017) 'The Darkweb & The Weaponisation of Data? - A new crime-terror nexus online?', TAKEDOWN Conference D3.5, Van Der Valk Hotel, Brussels, 16th November
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description The Evolution of Ransomware as a Serious and Organised CyberCrime, Dubllin, 28 February, 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact This was a talk to postgraduate students in the Law School at Trinity College, Dublin as part of their cybercrime masters degree. The talk looked at the Evolution of Ransomware as a Serious and Organised CyberCrime and focused upon how the new ecosystem that has evolved around cybercrime is enabling criminals to scale up their attacks in terms of volume and also impact in order to increase the yield from cybercrime.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description The Seductions of Cybercrime - Identifying pathways into and out of Cybercrime', SASO (Scottish Association for the Study of Offending), Glancing Back: 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2017) 'The Seductions of Cybercrime - Identifying pathways into and out of Cybercrime', SASO (Scottish Association for the Study of Offending), Glancing Back: Looking Forward New Crimes & Ensuring Justice, 48th Annual Conference, The Westerwood Hotel and Golf Resort Cumbernauld 3rd & 4th November 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description The Use of Encryption by Criminals: The UK Experience', Encryption Policy Workshop, Directorate General Joint Research Centre (DG-JRC) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2017) 'The Use of Encryption by Criminals: The UK Experience', Encryption Policy Workshop, Directorate General Joint Research Centre (DG-JRC), 30th May 2017, JRC Ispra, Italy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description The criminal use of encryption to hide intelligence and commit crimes, European Society of Criminology, Cardiff, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2017) The criminal use of encryption to hide intelligence and commit crimes, European Society of Criminology, Cardiff, 15th Sept. 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description The data breaches' European legal (un)patch(ed)work', presentation delivered at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, University of Cambridge 13 July 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The data breaches' European legal (un)patch(ed)work', presentation delivered at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, University of Cambridge 13 July 2017, Cambridge
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Threats and opportunities for AI in cybersecurity working group (1st Meeting), online, Turing Institute, 29 January 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact I participated in a Turing Workshop on Cyber, AI and Cybersecurity
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Tilec-GovReg Conference "Economic Governance of Data Driven Markets June 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dr Maria Grazia Porcedda 'Big Data Breaches? Harms to privacy rights of datafication' paper presented at the Tilec-GovReg Conference "Economic Governance of Data Driven Markets", Tilburg University, 13 October, Tilburg.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Took part in a closed meeting on Ransomware victims, 14 December, RUSI (Royal United Services Institute), Whitehall, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Took part in closed meeting on Ransomware victims, 14 December, RUSI (Royal United Services Institute), Whitehall, London
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Towards a conceptualization of cloud (cyber)crime', `Multidisciplinary approaches to cloud crime panel, published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2017) 'Towards a conceptualization of cloud (cyber)crime', `Multidisciplinary approaches to cloud crime panel, published in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada 9-14 July 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Videos - Wall. D.S. (2019) Copyright, trolling and speculative invoicing in the shadow of law, FACULTI, April, 2019, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Copyright, trolling and speculative invoicing in the shadow of law - touches on impact of IT on legal practices
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://faculti.net/copyright-trolling-speculative-invoicing-shadow-law/
 
Description Videos - Wall. D.S. (2019) Policing Cybercrime: networked and social media technologies and the challenges for policing - FACULTI, April, 2019, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Videos - Wall. D.S. (2019) Policing Cybercrime: networked and social media technologies and the challenges for policing - FACULTI, April, 2019,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://faculti.net/policing-cybercrime-networked-social-media-technologies-challenges-policing/
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2015) 'IWF's efforts to remove child porn from the web won't tackle paedophile networks - but it's still important', The Conversation, 19 August, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A discussion of the Internet Watch Foundation sharing its database of digital signatures of images, known as the hash list, with internet giants Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo, in the fight against the spread of child sexual abuse images on the web. Has received 2700 reads
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://theconversation.com/iwfs-efforts-to-remove-child-porn-from-the-web-wont-tackle-paedophile-ne...
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2015) 'It's about time cybercrimes appeared in crime figures if we are to take the problem seriously, The Conversation, 20 October, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact This article discusses the dramatic 40% increase in the recently published crime statistics for England and Wales which appear to end to the year-on-year decline in crime rates over the past 20 years or so. In fact the leap is explained by the inclusion for the first time of estimates of online fraud and cybercrime in the official statistics. Has had 3000 reads
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL http://theconversation.com/its-about-time-cybercrimes-appeared-in-crime-figures-if-we-are-to-take-th...
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2015) 'The TalkTalk hack story shows UK cybersecurity in disarray', The Conversation, 28 October, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Discusses the aftermath of the TalkTalk hack and speculation over the possible involvement of terrorists, vast financial loss and an impending cybercrime tsunami from stolen personal data. Fear of cybercrime went through the roof, then a 15-year-old teenager from Northern Ireland was arrested and subsequently bailed in connection with the hack. - has received about 1700 reads
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2015
URL https://theconversation.com/the-talktalk-hack-story-shows-uk-cybersecurity-in-disarray-49909
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2017) "The Gifts that Keep on Taking: Cybercrime Futures", Keynote Address, 22nd Annual CyberPsychology, CyberTherapy & Social Networking Conference (CYPSY22), University of Wolverhampton, England, June 26-28 2017. CYPSY22 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This keynote addressed the issue of the cybercriminals involved in cloud crime and also ransomware
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://interactivemediainstitute.com/cypsy22/
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2017) 'A New Online Crime-Terror nexus? The Darkweb & The Weaponisation of Data?', Festschrift, Clive Walker, Leeds University, 1st Dec. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This was a presentation at a festschrift for a retiring colleague. The audience were members of the House of Lords, Government, Judiciary, Crown Prosecution Service. The outcome has been much interest in the research projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2017) 'BIG DATA, BIG CRIME: The Cloud, CyberCrime and Policing', Big Data and Cyber Security Workshop, TILT (Tilburg University Institute of Law and Technology), Nederlands, 25th October. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A talk to a workshop on the implications of Big Data on crime. It helped develop ideas and about upstream (Data Breach, DDOS, Mass Spam) and downstream cybercrime such as Ransomware and frauds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2017) 'CYBERCRIME and the problems of prosecuting offenders', Presentation to the Sri Lankan Judiciary - Familiarisation Programme on Procedural Justice and Judicial Role 18 December. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The presentation was to senior Sri Lankan Judiciary who were learning about solutions to the challenges of cybercrime, including cloud crime and cybercrimes of extortion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2017) 'Darknets, Deepweb and Cryptocurrencies in relation to Organized Crime', Paper to ISSE The future of digital security & trust, Deloitte EMEA., Belgium, 15th November. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact This talk was to a conference of the cybersecurity industry.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.eema.org/isse-2017-future-digital-security-trust/
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2017) 'Policing Bitcoin: The Challenge of CryptoCurrencies for Policing, 2017 CEPOL Research & Science Conference, Hungarian National University of Public Service in Budapest, 28th November. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This talk was to the CEPOL (European Police Training College) on Bitcoin as a payment method for Ransomware and Extortion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL https://www.cepol.europa.eu/science-research/conferences/2017
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2017) 'Ransomware, Cloud Crime and Bitcoin', West Yorkshire Police Cyber Independent Advisory Group, Leeds, 13th December. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to the West Yorkshire Police Independent Advisory Group on Cybercrime
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2017) 'The Human Dimensions of Ransomware', RUGIT Meeting (Russel Group IT Managers meeting), Bristol Engine Shed, 2nd November. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A presentation to develop a dialogue with practitioners (Russell Group IT managers) to help us with our research and also feed back to them.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2017) 'The Reality of the Virtual Currency Threat: An Academic Perspective', Virtual Currencies and the Future of Money Laundering, RUSI (Royal United Services Institute), 61 Whitehall, London, 26th September 2017 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This talk was to the Royal United Services Institute and covered Ransomware and Cloud Crimes
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) 'Facilitating the Online Crime-Terror Nexus: Cybercrime Kingpins and the Cybercrime Ecosystem', ECPR SGOC (Standing Group on Organised Crime), Sofia, Bulgaria, 4-9 July 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact An invited talk and panel at the conference of the European Group on Organised Crime in Bulgaria talking about my research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://standinggroups.ecpr.eu/sgoc/sofia-20191/
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) 'Towards Understanding Cybercrime as an Ecosystem', Presentation to the Home Office, London, 2 July 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This was an invited talk to the Home Office working group on Cybercrime to discuss my research on the EMPHASIS and CRITiCal projects
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Analysis of the ransomware ecosystem, CRITiCal/ Emphasis meeting, 2 May, Leeds 2-3 May 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact This was a show and tell to diseminate research ideas to colleagues and invited participants to disseminate information and receive comments
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Big Data, Big Data Crimes and the Cybercrime Ecosystem, Annual conference of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, 13 November. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This was one of three talks to panels at the American Society of Criminology on my work
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Cyber-Crime: risks, trends and responses, 'Global Issues', MoD Combined Forces, Bradford, 4th June. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was one of two talks to MoD Combined forces on the nature of Cyberthreats and attacks. The talk covered both ransomware and also cloud crime projects
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Cybercrime Kingpins and the Commoditization of Cybercrime, ESC, Ghent 19th Sept. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact An invited panel and talk at teh European Society of Criminology in Ghent on my various research findings
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.eurocrim2019.com/
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Cybercrime Kingpins and the Modern Cybercrime Infrastructure, Annual conference of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, 14 November. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The third talk - to a panel at the American Society of Criminology on my research findings
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Cybercrime Kingpins, ANZOC Dec 10-13, Perth Convention and exhibition Centre, Perth, Western Australia 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The second of invited talks at the Australian Society of Criminology Conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Cybercrime Kingpins: The Changing Division of Criminal Labour in the Cybercrime Ecosystem, University Lecture Series, University College Cork 10th, October 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact This was an invited University Lecture at University College Cork with a large varied audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Cybercrime: the organisation of big data crime online, Leeds Cybersecurity Week 22nd October 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact A talk to the general public and others for the University Cybersecurlty Week
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cybercrime-kingpins-the-organisation-of-big-data-crime-online-tickets...
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Pathways in to and out of Cybercrime: Seductions versus Choices or Carrots and Sticks?, Keynote Speech to the International Conference on Youth and Cybercrime and Expert Round-table Meeting (The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups), 14th and 15th June, Hong Kong. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This was an invited keynote speech to an international conference in Hong Kong.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Pathways out of Cybercrime, ANZOC Dec 10-13, Perth Convention and exhibition Centre, Perth, Western Australia 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact An invited talk (one of two) at a panel on cybercrime at the Australian Society of Criminology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Ransomware and the Modern Cybercrime Ecosystem - 9 Dec. Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact An invited presentation on Ransomware as part of a University Lecture series
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Ransomware attacks on cities are rising - authorities need to stop paying out', The Conversation, 27 August, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact They reflect a general shift in ransomware tactics from "spray and pray" attacks on large numbers of individual consumers, to "big game hunting", which targets organisations, usually through people in positions of power. Has received 3500 reads
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://theconversation.com/ransomware-attacks-on-cities-are-rising-authorities-must-stop-paying-out...
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) The Changing Division of Criminal Labour in the Cybercrime Ecosystem, 2nd Annual Conference on the Human Factor in Cybercrime, 17 October, Castle Oud-Poelgeest, Leiden, Netherlands. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This was an invited talk to a Human Factors conference in the Netherlands. Talking about my research findings
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://www.rechten.vu.nl/en/research/organization/research-programmes/empirical-normative-studies/h...
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) The Increase of Scalability and Asymmetry in Cybercrime, paper to the Roundtable: Research Agenda and Curriculum in Cybercrime and Cybercriminology, Annual conference of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, 14 November. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact The second talk to a roundtable on cybercrime at the American Society of Criminology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) The technologies of Human Trafficking, UNODC Working group, United Nations, Vienna 27-29 November, 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A thematic persentation at a UNODC meeting I was invited to attend at which I gave a presentation and took part in the discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) The threat of Online Crime/ Terror Nexus in Airports and Seaports, EAASP (European Association of Airport and Seaport Police, Lisbon, Portugal 29-31 May 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This activity was an invited keynote speech to the European Association of Airport and Seaport Police to talk about my research findings from my EPSRC projects
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2019) Transnational Crime and Criminal Networks, 'Global Issues', MoD Combined Forces, Bradford, 4th June. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was the second of the talks to the MoD Combined forces workshop on cyberthreats
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2020) 'How cities can fight back against ransomware attacks', The Conversation, March 10 
Form Of Engagement Activity A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Short article based upon original research which discusses how ransomware now targets large complex organisations (such as cities) which manage or provide services to others and vicimises them and clients. It also focuses upon ways in which cities can defend themselves and fight back.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://theconversation.com/how-cities-can-fight-back-against-ransomware-attacks-132782
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2020) 'The evolution of ransomware as a major cybercrime', Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, 4pm, 12th March. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A talk about my research on the evolution of ransomware as a major cybercrime. (was not given in person because of being recalled due to coronavirus - eventually delivered via video)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://symposium.uoc.edu/47551/detail/ransomware-as-an-evolving-cybercrime.html
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2020) 'What is Cybercrime and what are the issues for law and enforcement?', Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. 5pm, 11th March. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A talk to international students in Spain on what cybercrime is and its implications for society in the 2020s. Was not delivered because of being recalled doe to the coronavirus - eventually delivered via video.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2020) 'What is cyberrime and what is the (legal) issue?', School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, 9th March. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A talk to postgrads (with some undergrads and staff on my research into cybercrime and cybersecurity and what to do about hackers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Wall, D.S. (2022) 'Ransomware attacks and the Higher Education Sector', Challenges for the HE sector conference, WPM Payments, Crewe Hall, June 9th 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2022) 'Ransomware attacks and the Higher Education Sector', Challenges for the HE sector conference, WPM Payments, Crewe Hall, June 9th 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.wpmgroup.com/client-resources-portal-log-in?hsLang=en
 
Description Was an expert panel member on a UKRI Cybercrime Hackathon 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was a member of the judging panel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description What capabilities will the NCA need to tackle future cyber-dependant crime? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2022) 'What capabilities will the NCA need to tackle future cyber-dependant crime?', Presentation to the Future of the NCA: Combatting Cybercrime, Workshop, Royal United Services Institute, Whitehall, London, June 6th 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description contribution to workshop: Future Directions in Cyber Crime Research 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact RISCS and the Home Office workshop to discuss future research priorities and evidence gaps in relation to cyber crime.
The cyber crime research field has been growing over the past years and we are beginning to see more join-up across the disciplines in tackling important research questions. However, we still have some way to go in resolving key evidence gaps regarding:
• the scale, costs and consequences of cyber crime;
• profiles and pathways into offending;
• victimisation and how to improve cyber security behaviours amongst public and businesses; and
• effectiveness of interventions to prevent, deter and disrupt offending.
Building further understanding of these areas is key for tackling cyber crime and meeting objectives set out in the National Cyber Security Strategy.

In the context of exciting plans for the expansion of RISCS, and further potential funding opportunities, we would like to invite you to a workshop with policy makers, law enforcement and academic colleagues from a range of disciplines, to help identify key evidence gaps and research opportunities for the future.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description e-Crime and Artificial Intelligence Forum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Presentation at a regular forum meeting (e-Crime) on the machine learning approaches which can be taken to help identify potential offenders and those more likely to be attacked.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://akjassociates.com/event/aiforum
 
Description interviewed by The Times about Ransomware and a Data Breach which stole sensitive data about celebrities. 26th September, 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Was interviewed and quoted by The Times (may have been the Sunday Times) about my research on Ransomware about a Data Breach which stole sensitive data about celebrities. 26th September, 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description nterviewed by Highsnobriety (fashion magazine) about counterfeit cars in China and the lack of international copyright laws enforceable. 'China's Counterfeit Car Culture Is All Kinds of Sus', 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed by Highsnobriety (fashion magazine) about counterfeit cars in China and the lack of international copyright laws enforceable. 'China's Counterfeit Car Culture Is All Kinds of Sus', Highsnobriety, 17 May, 2017 - http://www.highsnobiety.com/2017/05/17/chinese-counterfeit-cars/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
URL http://www.highsnobiety.com/2017/05/17/chinese-counterfeit-cars/
 
Description nterviewed by The Register about cryptocurrency. Silver, A. (2017) 'Crown Prosecution Service is coming for crooks' cryptocurrency' 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interviewed by The Register about cryptocurrency.
Silver, A. (2017) 'Crown Prosecution Service is coming for crooks' cryptocurrency', The Register, 30 November, https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/30/cps_cryptocurrency_confiscation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description yberCrime: The Changing Cybersecurity Threat Landscape and Implications for Regulation, TILT (Tilburg Institute of Law and Information Technology), Nederlands 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wall, D.S. (2017) CyberCrime: The Changing Cybersecurity Threat Landscape and Implications for Regulation, TILT (Tilburg Institute of Law and Information Technology), Nederlands, 23rd October.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017