Please find below the Call for Papers for consideration in your research activities.
8-10 September 2026 (Reykjavík, Iceland)
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*** Important Dates ***
• First paper submission deadline: 20th January 2026
(There may be additional deadlines for submissions.)
• Paper notification deadline: 25th April 2026
• Paper camera-ready deadline: 15th May 2026
• Poster and Demo submission deadline: 30th March 2026
All deadlines are at the end of the stated day at 23:59 using the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) convention.
*** Conference Description ***
The 17th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics & Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) will be held on 8-10 September 2026, in Reykjavik, Iceland. This three-day event is expected to attract over 100 participants, including academics, practitioners, criminologists (or law enforcement) and vendors, providing business and intellectual engagement opportunities among attendees.
This conference's theme is cyber analytics and forensics in the era of emerging threats. Novel cyber threats are continuously emerging, catalyzed by the rapid deployment of Large Language Models and other AI across many domains which increases the threat surface in many sectors such as Smart Industry, Fintech and digital government. The focus of this conference is to provide a platform for discussing these emerging threats and to identify priorities for the community to target with the next generation of cyber analytics. We particularly welcome research which studies the dynamics between human factors and AI technologies and the corresponding impact upon cybersecurity and forensics.
Potential workshops may include: doctoral consortium for PhD students, tutorials such as password cracking for forensics, forensic education, forensic applications of AI, responding to an incident from a police or corporate interaction perspective, including what to expect when you involve law enforcement.
We encourage the authors to use the Posters and Demos venue as a way to open up discussions with the ICDF2C community about their early work in progress and develop the work for future collaborations.
Representatives from industry, including established companies and startups, are warmly welcome to showcase products and services that are related to the topics of the conference.
*** Theme: Cyber analytics and forensics in the era of emerging threats ***
Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and other related technologies:
- Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics (e.g., deepfake)
- Deep learning
- Explainable AI (XAI)
- Generative AI (GenAI)
- Large language model (LLM)
Device forensics:
- Blockchain investigations
- Internet of Things (IoT) forensics
(including industrial IoT, medical IoT, military IoT, battlefield IoT, and vehicular IoT)
- Edge and/or cloud forensics
- Network and distributed system forensics
- Virtual / augmented reality (VR/AR) forensics
- Other emerging / contemporary technologies
(e.g., hardware and software such as firmware and operating systems)
Financial crime investigations:
- Financial frauds and scams
- Cryptocurrency investigations
- Market manipulation investigations
- Anti-money laundering / counter terrorism financing investigations
- Anti-corruption investigations
Cyber security and analytics:
- Network security (e.g., intrusion detection)
- Malware analysis
- IoT security
- Security operations center
- Virtual / augmented reality (VR/AR)
Education and Evaluation:
- Case studies – legal (e.g., child sexual abuse material) and/or technical
- Infrastructure
- Methodology
- Replicability and validity
- Tool validation
Theory and fundamentals:
- Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics (e.g., encryption and deepfake)
- Frameworks (legal, policy, and/or technical)
- Privacy-preserving forensics
- Social and privacy
- Steganography and steganalysis
- Visualization methods and tools for forensic analysis
*** Organizing Committee ***
General Chairs
• Helmut Neukirchen - University of Iceland, Iceland
• Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo - University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Technical Program Committee Chairs
• Thomas Welsh - University of Iceland, Iceland
• Hans P. Reiser - Reykjavík University, Iceland
• Raymond Chan - Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore