EconoMical, PsycHologicAl and Societal Impact of RanSomware (EMPHASIS)
Lead Research Organisation:
De Montfort University
Department Name: Faculty of Technology
Abstract
The project considers the economical, psychological and social effects of ransomware.
Ransomware is a particular type of malware, and a new crime of extortion committed online. Malicious software gets installed through a phishing email or a drive-by download on a website. When it runs, it performs an action such as the encryption of the user's files, and asks a ransom for this action to be undone. The victim is coerced into paying through psychological manipulations which sometimes masquerade as advice. Due to the subtle ways that the technological aspects of the crime blend with - and are exploited through - various human dimensions, it has profound economic, psychological and societal impacts upon its victims, which makes its eradication all the more complicated. Law Enforcement Agencies have estimated that losses to criminals using ransomware are many millions of pounds, but the true costs may never be known because victims have shown to be particularly reluctant to report.
This project sets out to answer the following questions:
Why is ransomware so effective as a crime and why are so many people falling victim to it?
Who is carrying out ransomware attacks?
How can police agencies be assisted?
What interventions are required to mitigate the impacts of ransomware?
In order to do so, the project gathers data from Law Enforcement Agencies (which have agreed to closely collaborate with the project), through surveys of the general public and SMEs, and through interviews with stakeholders. The data will be analysed using script analysis, behavioural analysis, and other profiling techniques, leading to narratives regarding the criminals, the victims, and the typical ransomware scenario. Economical and behavioural models of ransomware will then be constructed and used to improve ransomware mitigation and advice, as well as support for law enforcement.
Ransomware is a particular type of malware, and a new crime of extortion committed online. Malicious software gets installed through a phishing email or a drive-by download on a website. When it runs, it performs an action such as the encryption of the user's files, and asks a ransom for this action to be undone. The victim is coerced into paying through psychological manipulations which sometimes masquerade as advice. Due to the subtle ways that the technological aspects of the crime blend with - and are exploited through - various human dimensions, it has profound economic, psychological and societal impacts upon its victims, which makes its eradication all the more complicated. Law Enforcement Agencies have estimated that losses to criminals using ransomware are many millions of pounds, but the true costs may never be known because victims have shown to be particularly reluctant to report.
This project sets out to answer the following questions:
Why is ransomware so effective as a crime and why are so many people falling victim to it?
Who is carrying out ransomware attacks?
How can police agencies be assisted?
What interventions are required to mitigate the impacts of ransomware?
In order to do so, the project gathers data from Law Enforcement Agencies (which have agreed to closely collaborate with the project), through surveys of the general public and SMEs, and through interviews with stakeholders. The data will be analysed using script analysis, behavioural analysis, and other profiling techniques, leading to narratives regarding the criminals, the victims, and the typical ransomware scenario. Economical and behavioural models of ransomware will then be constructed and used to improve ransomware mitigation and advice, as well as support for law enforcement.
Planned Impact
We envisage our work will have a major impact on individuals and many key organisations across the UK including SMEs, Hospitals, Police Forces and Local Councils, all of which have recently been victimised by ransomware.
The results of the project will constitute a large contribution to the UK's digital economy, as they will help reduce the impact of cybercrime (particularly ransomware) and raise awareness, educate and improve the response of our citizens to cybercrime. Our activities will also educate and make best practices more readily available to SMEs and Law Enforcement Agencies. The economic implications will be measured, indirectly as a loss of profit on the part of cybercriminals. Additionally, some of the outcomes of the project will decisively help individuals and organizations to know how to respond more effectively to ransomware, and to report these cases to the authorities in larger numbers, which will contribute to more effective governmental reactions and campaigns against ransomware and other malware.
We will achieve this impact through:
- the project web page: This will link to particularly informative cases, disseminate our research results, link to sanitising tools and advisories, and publicise best practices.
Extensive documentation will be developed and made available in the webpage to describe the functioning, configuration, and defensive and cleaning strategies against the most prevalent and threatening ransomware in the UK. Similarly, detailed instructions on how to best configure different operating systems (for PCs, smartphones and tablets) to protect them against ransomware. We will also publish a comparative list of how different popular antivirus and other security software vendors fare against different ransomware.
-an Online Video Course (OVC)
We will develop an OVC of approximately 12 hours. It will describe the basics of ransomware, how it has been used in the past and can be used in the future, will present our project outputs and will include interviews with law enforcement agents, academic and forensic experts and victims. We will include best practices, security software recommendations and practical examples on how to prevent and to react to a ransomware attack. A special grant from Kent University aimed at creating new MOOC-related materials, will cover creation, recording, editing and distribution costs up to £5,000.
-Seminars
Two seminars will be held at City University to present our findings to LEA. These seminars will also include training sessions and technical exchanges.
- Public engagement activities
We will prepare a set of activities aimed to maximize the impact to the general public. Our activities are focused on three goals: (1) making science accessible to the general public, (2) increasing societal awareness and interest in the area, and (3) attracting talent towards future careers in cybersecurity.
-- Cafe Scientifique - Schools Visits - Open Days - Master Classes
We plan to run four Cafe Scientifique 90 minutes talks, covering the fundamentals of ransomware for better educating attendees about the existing risks and how to best act to minimise the chances of getting infected and how to react when it happens. We aim to do so in a way accessible to the general public, raising awareness and attracting interest towards the topics. We will modify this presentation for using it in schools' outreach, at University Open Days, and as Masterclasses offered to SMEs, e.g. following similar activities at Kent in recent years.
-- Dissemination in generalist media
We also plan to use our extensive experience in science popularisation by writing a series of three articles at TheConversation.com: a general introduction to ransomware, tools and techniques to counter it, and an overview for the general public of the project's research outcomes. We will also continue to target newspapers and web magazines for this kind of publicity.
The results of the project will constitute a large contribution to the UK's digital economy, as they will help reduce the impact of cybercrime (particularly ransomware) and raise awareness, educate and improve the response of our citizens to cybercrime. Our activities will also educate and make best practices more readily available to SMEs and Law Enforcement Agencies. The economic implications will be measured, indirectly as a loss of profit on the part of cybercriminals. Additionally, some of the outcomes of the project will decisively help individuals and organizations to know how to respond more effectively to ransomware, and to report these cases to the authorities in larger numbers, which will contribute to more effective governmental reactions and campaigns against ransomware and other malware.
We will achieve this impact through:
- the project web page: This will link to particularly informative cases, disseminate our research results, link to sanitising tools and advisories, and publicise best practices.
Extensive documentation will be developed and made available in the webpage to describe the functioning, configuration, and defensive and cleaning strategies against the most prevalent and threatening ransomware in the UK. Similarly, detailed instructions on how to best configure different operating systems (for PCs, smartphones and tablets) to protect them against ransomware. We will also publish a comparative list of how different popular antivirus and other security software vendors fare against different ransomware.
-an Online Video Course (OVC)
We will develop an OVC of approximately 12 hours. It will describe the basics of ransomware, how it has been used in the past and can be used in the future, will present our project outputs and will include interviews with law enforcement agents, academic and forensic experts and victims. We will include best practices, security software recommendations and practical examples on how to prevent and to react to a ransomware attack. A special grant from Kent University aimed at creating new MOOC-related materials, will cover creation, recording, editing and distribution costs up to £5,000.
-Seminars
Two seminars will be held at City University to present our findings to LEA. These seminars will also include training sessions and technical exchanges.
- Public engagement activities
We will prepare a set of activities aimed to maximize the impact to the general public. Our activities are focused on three goals: (1) making science accessible to the general public, (2) increasing societal awareness and interest in the area, and (3) attracting talent towards future careers in cybersecurity.
-- Cafe Scientifique - Schools Visits - Open Days - Master Classes
We plan to run four Cafe Scientifique 90 minutes talks, covering the fundamentals of ransomware for better educating attendees about the existing risks and how to best act to minimise the chances of getting infected and how to react when it happens. We aim to do so in a way accessible to the general public, raising awareness and attracting interest towards the topics. We will modify this presentation for using it in schools' outreach, at University Open Days, and as Masterclasses offered to SMEs, e.g. following similar activities at Kent in recent years.
-- Dissemination in generalist media
We also plan to use our extensive experience in science popularisation by writing a series of three articles at TheConversation.com: a general introduction to ransomware, tools and techniques to counter it, and an overview for the general public of the project's research outcomes. We will also continue to target newspapers and web magazines for this kind of publicity.
Organisations
- De Montfort University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Alan Turing Institute (Collaboration)
- Newcastle University (Collaboration)
- DĂșn Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Project Partner)
- HOME OFFICE (Project Partner)
- BT Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Flinders University (Project Partner)
Publications
Atapour-Abarghouei A
(2019)
Volenti non fit injuria: Ransomware and its Victims
Atapour-Abarghouei A
(2021)
Rank over Class: The Untapped Potential of Ranking in Natural Language Processing
Boiten E.A
(2018)
GDPR-based extortion is a dangerous myth
Brierley C
(2020)
PaperW8
Cartwright A
(2019)
Ransomware and Reputation
in Games
Cartwright A
(2022)
An investigation of individual willingness to pay ransomware
in Journal of Financial Crime
Description | Current ransomware is imperfect from technological, economical, and psychological points of view. Malware infection methods may still be the best place to disrupt attacks. Evidence that ransomware is used by large scale organised crime has materialised, maybe not as expected through wide-ranging indiscriminate attack, but rather through the stark increase in large scale targeted attacks with high ransom amounts. Intelligence services have ascribed some of the mainly disruptive ransomware campaigns to rogue states; targeted attacks appear to be undertaken by criminal organisations developing their own ransomware variants. We have obtained deeper insight also in the motivations and approaches of the stakeholders in the ransomware world other than the criminals: victims, law enforcement, and the increasingly important cyber insurance companies. These insights have been reported to the academic community, embodied in advice to businesses, law enforcement, policy makers and the general public. From a technical point of view, we have also explored novel ways for detecting a ransomware attack. The typical approach for detecting ransomware is by measuring statistical values of files in a target system or device. When statistical values (such as entropy and chi-square) of the files appear to be random, it might indicate that the files are being encrypted and potentially being attacked by ransomware. We have found that only relying on this approach will not be sufficient. We have combined it with other detection methods (such as using honeypot or canary files) in order to provide a better confidence that a ransomware attack is taking place, while minimising the false positives. There is also scope for using machine learning techniques for identifying new strains of ransomware through analysis of activity within a computer system. As with all forms of protection, access to information is a vital tool in our arsenal. Although ransomware criminals are often keen to provide contact to themselves, for the purpose of helping victims pay their ransom, there is a strong reluctance for victims to gain information from other channels. Especially as these channels can provide information as how to avoid payment. Providing mechanisms to help victims identify pertinent information is therefore essential. |
Exploitation Route | Economical and technological analysis will need to continue, hand in hand with the evolution of ransomware and the modus operandi of the criminals. A survey on cybercrime victimisation has provided data that require and allow further analysis. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Healthcare Government Democracy and Justice |
URL | http://www.emphasis.ac.uk |
Description | Ideas from the EMPHASIS project have fed into policy development and discussions regarding information security management and cyber crime, via presentations, evidence to policy consultations, and public engagement publications. Prof David Wall in particular has had ongoing policy impact in this area, Prof David Wall and Prof Eerke Boiten engage extensively with the media in relation to ransomware attacks. Prof Edward Cartwright and Dr Anna Cartwright engage with local industry and SMEs on cybersecurity awareness and mitigation including ransomware. |
First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice |
Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Involvement with DCRF Web 3.0 exploration |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | Area is as yet mostly unregulated. Contributed to an event in October 2022, and some inputs reflected (not attributed) in resulting Insight Paper. |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insight-paper-on-web3 |
Description | Member and Participant on HMIC-FRS external reference group Cyber-dependent crime, Vauxhall, London, 26 November, 2018 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Member, Academic Advisory Panel on Law Commission Panel on Offensive and Abusive Communications, London, 8th October 2019 |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Participant at the Cryptocurrency and Money Laundering Workshop, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), Whitehall, London, 30 May 2018 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Participant at the UNODC Cybercrime Experts Group meeting Vienna 26-29 March 2019 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Participation as external contributor on the Criminal Law Reform Network review of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/01/22/clrnn_cma_reform_report.pdf |
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 | Connecting delayed pre-commitment with cyber awareness in order to address the perception gap and present bias |
Amount | ÂŁ43,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Home Office |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2018 |
End | 03/2020 |
Description | EPSRC Human Dimensions of Cyber Security |
Amount | ÂŁ915,946 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/P011772/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2017 |
End | 06/2019 |
Description | Investigative interviewing of cybercrime victims |
Amount | ÂŁ70,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Home Office |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2019 |
End | 08/2019 |
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 | "Investing in prevention or paying for recovery - attitudes to cyber risk" at GameSec 2019, the 10th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, Stockholm, Sweden, October 30 - November 1, 2019. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presented our work at the conference attended by multidisciplinary audience including people form tech industry. Especially engaging discussions with the latter ones on human aspect of cybersecurity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.gamesec-conf.org |
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 | 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 | Article on economics of ransomware in Australian Financial Review |
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 | Edward Cartwright provided an interview to the Australian Financial Review on the work we have done on the economics of ransomware. This resulted in an article in the Review which was widely disseminated on social media. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.afr.com/technology/why-cyber-criminals-will-increase-ransoms-and-target-the-rich-2020030... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Contributed to article on ransomware and bitcoin prices for Decrpyt |
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 | Provided an interview to Decrypt on the relationship between Bitcoin and ransomware. This led to an article and subsequent dissemination on social media. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://decrypt.co/15394/how-ransomware-exploded-in-the-age-of-btc |
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 | Cyber crime and GDPR |
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 | The development of cyber crime in relation to the introduction of GDPR |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/gdpr-fuelling-rise-of-pii-theft/ |
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 | Discussion on cyber crime and politics |
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 | How sophisticated was the DDOS attack against Labour? Contribution to a Full Fact article, aimed at informing the general public and debunking potentially misleading information. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://fullfact.org/news/labour-ddos-attack/ |
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 with DCRF Web 3.0 regulation workshop |
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 | Workshop on Web 3.0 and the challenges it puts for UK regulators as federated in DCRF (Ofcom, ICO, and others). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://competitionandmarkets.blog.gov.uk/2022/11/10/web-3-0-and-distributed-ledger-technologies-a-r... |
Description | Engagement with the press on public interest aspects of security, cryptography, and privacy |
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 | Quotes in international, national (Guardian, Independent,...), and online press (Wired, TheRegister, ...) Media comment pieces, e.g. many in The Conversation LinkedIn columns Twitter engagement and online blogs Regional and national radio TV - national and international |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
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 | FOSAD summer schools |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | CryptoForma became a partner in the international FOSAD summer school. Selection of speakers, sponsoring of speakers, and sponsoring of UK attendants. Eerke Boiten is still a member of the steering commitee of this summer school series |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/uniurb.it/fosad |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 | 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 | 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 | Multiple interviews on BBC Radio Leicester regarding cybercrime and privacy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Eerke Boiten has been a regular visitor to BBC Radio Leicester (some 20 times over this period), covering cybercrime and privacy topics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022 |
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 | 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 | 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 | Open Letter to GCHQ regarding cryptographic backdoors |
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 | Members of the CryptoForma network drew up an open letter to GCHQ regarding the insecurity of cryptographic backdoors. This was reported on in The Guardian. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/16/nsa-gchq-undermine-internet-security |
Description | Panel on cryptocurrencies at Henry George School of Social Sciences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Prof E Boiten joined an international panel discussion on cryptocurrencies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aCKa-2NWzM |
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 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 | 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 | Press engagement on Ransomware by Eerke Boiten |
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 | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview on Al Jazeera English (TV), 5 February 2023 Interview on LBC (Radio), 11 August 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
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 | RISCS meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk introducing EMPHASIS to the RISCS institute |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.riscs.org.uk/2017/11/09/emphasis-studying-ransomware/ |
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 | Report on digital surveillance, privacy, and cyber 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 | Digital surveillance could be on the path to controlling everything, says cyber security academic |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.teiss.co.uk/digital-surveillance-could-be-on-the-path-to-controlling-everything-says-pro... |
Description | Summer School on the Human Aspects of Cyber-Crime and Online Fraud at the University of Kent in Canterbury. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The summer school attracted participants from academia, law enforcement, policy making and business attending. Anna Cartwright led a session on "To pay or not: The economics and game theory behind ransomware and crimes of extortion". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://iaesv.our.dmu.ac.uk/2019/10/23/summer-school-on-the-human-aspects-of-cyber-crime-and-online-... |
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 | 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 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 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 human factors of cybersecurity: contribution to Law Society of Scotland Cybersecurity & Law Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Human factors of cyber security discussed in a CPD conference for lawyers in Scotland. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=34&ved=2ahUKEwiN4Y3ivo7oAhUDwqYKHT3DCR... |
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 | 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. (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) 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. (2020) Ransomware Evolution in the Modern Cybercrime Ecosystem, Final EMPHASIS Research Meeting, De Montfort University, Leicester, 8 January. |
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 | Presentation at the final EMPHASIS research meeting at De Montfort University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
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 | Wall, D.S. and Boiten, E. (2017) 'NHS caught out by WannaCry - now scrambling to catch up, Public Sector Focus, November/ December, 13: 22-23, |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | An article in Public Sector Focus about the NHS recovery after the Wannacry ransomware attack. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://flickread.com/edition/html/index.php?pdf=5a31881f4d346#24 |
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 | Workshop at Kent on the human aspects of cyber security |
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 economics of cyber-security What are the costs of preventing and responding to cyber-attack? What is the 'business model' of the criminals? How to respond to ransomware and other forms of extortion or theft? The human link in cyber-security How to nudge people to increase security, such as through back-ups and software updates? What are the ways in which criminals exploit behavioural bias? How can technology be designed to better recognise the human side of cyber-security? The workshop included presentations on state-of-the-art findings. It also provided ample opportunity for general discussion and the sharing of experience. A particular focus was placed on the challenges that lie ahead and the approaches we can take to evaluating and tackling those problems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.kent.ac.uk/economics/research/micro-group/events/workshop-20-nov17.html |
Description | Workshop on evidence based methods in cyber security |
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 | Workshop on evidence based methods in cyber security |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-refining-evidence-based-methods-for-cyber-security-research-... |
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 |