21st Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA '24)

Call for Papers

Important Dates (AoE)

Cycle 1:
- Submission: ~~Dec 6, 2023~~ Dec 19, 2023 (extended)
- Notification (accept/reject/revision):~~Jan 24, 2024~~ Feb 2, 2024
Cycle 2:
- Submission: ~~Feb 14, 2024~~ Feb 21, 2024 (extended)
- Notification (accept/reject): ~~Apr 4, 2024~~ Apr 8, 2024
Camera ready deadline: ~~Apr 17, 2024~~ May 01, 2024
Conference: July 17 to 19, 2024

General Information

The annual DIMVA conference serves as a premier forum for advancing the state of the art in the broader areas of intrusion detection, malware analysis, and vulnerability assessment. Each year, DIMVA brings together international experts from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss novel research in these areas. DIMVA is organized by the special interest group Security – Intrusion Detection and Response (SIDAR) of the German Informatics Society (GI). The conference proceedings will appear in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Topics of Interest

DIMVA solicits submissions of high-quality, original scientific papers presenting novel research on malware analysis, intrusion detection, vulnerability assessment, and related systems security topics.

Special topic: Generative AI. We encourage submissions about security issues of generative AI to solve intrusion, malware, or vulnerability detection related challenges; or security of generative AI applications. Submissions in this special topic will be reviewed with the same criteria as any other submission.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Intrusions

Novel approaches and domains
Insider detection
Prevention and response
Data leakage, exfiltration, and poisoning
Result correlation and cooperation
Evasion and other attacks
Potentials and limitation
Operational experiences
Privacy, legal, and social aspects
Targeted attacks
Analysis or detection of cryptocurrency heists

Malware

Automated analyses
Behavioral models
Prevention and containment
Classification
Lineage
Forensics and recovery
Underground economy
Vulnerabilities in malware
Financially targeted malware (e.g., ransomware, DeFi)

Vulnerability detection

Vulnerability prevention
Vulnerability analysis
Exploitation and defenses
Hardware vulnerabilities
Situational awareness
Active probing
Vulnerabilities in decentralized systems

Papers will be judged on novelty, significance, correctness, and clarity. We expect all papers to provide enough details to enable reproducibility of the experimental results. We encourage papers that bridge research in different communities. We also welcome experience papers that clearly articulate lessons learnt.

Types of Submissions Solicited

We invite submissions of two types:

Full Paper: presenting novel and mature research results. Full papers are limited to 20 pages in Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and appendices.

Short Paper: presenting original, still ongoing work that has not yet reached the maturity required for a full paper. Short papers are limited to 10 pages in Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and appendices. Short papers will be included in the proceedings. The title of short papers must start with the words “Extended Abstract”.

Papers that do not follow the above formatting guidelines may be rejected without review.

Submission Guidelines

DIMVA 2024 will adopt a double-blind reviewing process. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized. Author names and affiliations must be excluded from the paper. Furthermore, authors should avoid obvious self-references, and should cite their own previous work in third person, whenever necessary. Papers that are not properly anonymized risk being rejected without review.

Submissions must be original work and may not be under submission to another venue at the time of review. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to physically present the submitted work at the conference, for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

Authors are encouraged to submit code appropriately anonymized, using, e.g., https://anonymous.4open.science/.

Papers can be submitted using https://dimva2024.hotcrp.com/.

Ethical considerations

Submissions that report experiments with data gathered from human subjects should disclose whether the research received approval from an institutional ethics review board (IRB), if applicable, and what measures were adopted to minimize risks to privacy.

Submissions that describe experiments related to vulnerabilities in software or systems should discuss the steps taken to avoid negatively affecting any third-parties (e.g., in case of probing of network devices), and how the authors plan to responsibly disclose the vulnerabilities to the appropriate software or system vendors or owners before publication.

If you have any questions, please contact the program chairs at pc-chairs@dimva.org.

Committee

Program co-chairs (email: pc-chairs@dimva.org)

Federico Maggi (AWS)
Manuel Egele (Boston University)

Program committee

Andrea Lanzi, University of Milan
Sven Dietrich, City University of New York
Seungwon Shin, KAIST
Mario Polino, Politecnico di Milano
Daniele Cono D'Elia, Sapienza University of Rome
Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano
Sébastien Bardin, CEA List
Tapti Palit Purdue, University
Deborah Shands SRI, International
Roland Yap, National University of Singapore
Michael Schwarz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Konrad Rieck, TU Berlin
Gianluca Stringhini, Boston University
Andrea Continella, University of Twente
Yinzhi Cao Johns, Hopkins University
Marco Cova, VMware
Alexios Voulimeneas, TU Delft
Shirin Nilizadeh, The University of Texas at Arlington
Michalis Polychronakis, Stony Brook University
Bo Feng, Zhejiang University
Anita Nikolich, UIUC
Vasileios Kemerlis, Brown University
Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis
Daniele Antonioli, EURECOM
Andrea Mambretti, IBM Research Europe - Zurich
Fabio Pierazzi, King's College London
Michele Carminati, Politecnico di Milano
Nick Nikiforakis, Stony Brook University
Aravind Machiry, Purdue University
Flavio Toffalini, EPFL
Marcel Busch, EPFL
Nils Ole Tippenhauer CISPA
Johannes Kinder, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)
Sevtap Duman Ege, University
Veelasha Moonsamy, Ruhr University Bochum
Feng Xiao Georgia, Institute of Technology
R Sekar, Stony Brook University
Christof Ferreira Torres, ETH Zürich
Stefano Longari, Politecnico di Milano
Dario Stabili, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Michael Meier, University of Bonn / Fraunhofer FKIE
Kevin Borgolte Ruhr University Bochum
Jeremiah Onaolapo, University of Vermont
Moritz Lipp, Amazon Web Services
Christophe Hauser, Dartmouth College
Lilika Markatou, TU Delft
Bo Feng, Zhejiang University

Publication chair

Michele Carminati

General chair

Mathias Payer (EPFL)

Steering committee

Ulrich Flegel (co-chair)
Michael Meier (co-chair)
Magnus Almgren
Sébastien Bardin
Gregory Blanc
Herbert Bos
Danilo M. Bruschi
Roland Bueschkes
Juan Caballero
Lorenzo Cavallaro
Hervé Debar
Sven Dietrich
Cristiano Giuffrida
Bernhard Haemmerli
Thorsten Holz
Marko Jahnke
Klaus Julisch
Christian Kreibich
Christopher Kruegel
Pavel Laskov
Federico Maggi
Clémentine Maurice
Roberto Perdisci
Michalis Polychronakis
Konrad Rieck
Jean-Pierre Seifert
Robin Sommer
Urko Zurutuza

Venue: EPFL

DIMVA will be held in INF1 on the EPFL campus. You can reach EPFL via the M1 metro line from "Lausanne Flon" or by bus. The best public transport stops are "Ecublens VD, EPFL" on the M1 metro, "St-Sulpice VD, Parc Scient." on bus 701 or, closest to the venue, "Ecublens VD, EPFL/Colladon" on bus 1. Check the SBB website for schedules or download their mobile app. If needed, you can buy train/public transport tickets on the SBB app.

Hotels in Lausanne provide a free transit card at the reception desk for travel in and around the city. With your printed reservation, you may travel from Lausanne train station to your hotel on public transport for check-in. We highly recommend taking public transport.

We have contacted three hotels with reserved room blocks that will give you the EPFL internal rate when booking with the code "DIMVA2024". Please contact the hotel directly to make your reservation.

Starling Hotel Lausanne ***
Email: s.mesnil@shlausanne.ch
Phone: +41(0)21/694.85.92
Price: 170.-/night (single), 205.- (double)
Taxes: 3.50, breakfast included

SwissTech Hotel **
Email: reception@sthotel.ch
Phone: +41(0)21/694.06.10
Price: 130.-/night (single)
Taxes: 5.50, breakfast 16.-
Use code "DIMVA2024"

IBIS Lausanne Centre **
Email: H6772-AM@accor.com
Phone: +41(0)21/340.07.01
Price: 170.-/night (single)
Taxes: 5.50, breakfast included.
Use code "DIMVA2024"