Call for Papers

Important Dates (AoE)

  • Cycle 1:
    • Submission: Dec 4, 2024   Dec 10, 2024 (extended!)
    • Notification (accept/reject): Jan 22, 2025
    • Submission Site: https://dimva25.hotcrp.com/
  • Cycle 2:
  • Camera ready deadline: Apr 30, 2025
  • Conference: July 9 to 11, 2025

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.

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 full papers for submission that present novel and mature research results. Full papers are limited to 20 pages in Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and appendices.

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

While we do not accept short papers, we encourage authors to submit a poster instead, presenting original, still ongoing work that has not yet reached the maturity required for a full paper. For more information, please refer to the Call for Posters.

Submission Guidelines

DIMVA 2025 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/.

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.


Call for Posters

Important Dates (AoE)

  • Submission: up to April 11th, 2025
  • Notification: April 21st, 2025
  • Camera-ready: April 30th, 2025
High-quality posters facilitate discussions about recent research findings, encourage meaningful interactions with interested attendees, showcase ongoing projects, and present innovative ideas. DIMVA invites submissions of posters that highlight preliminary results, ongoing work, or recently published research. Posters will be displayed in a forum setting, allowing attendees to mingle and engage with the presenters.

Submission Guidelines

Poster submissions must include two components: the poster draft and an accompanying poster paper. The poster paper should be at least 4 pages, but no more than 6 pages long, formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines, and this page count includes the bibliography and any appendices. Proposals are not anonymized and must clearly state the authors' names, affiliations, and contact information. The poster papers will be published in the proceedings. Please ensure that the title of the poster paper begins with the word "Poster".
The poster submission system is available at TBA.
Note: Poster sessions will be held in-person. At least one author of each accepted poster will be required to attend the conference. During the conference, we will provide poster stands. Attendees may bring printed posters up to size A0.

Committee

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

Program committee

  • Amin Kharraz, Florida International University
  • Andrea Continella, University of Twente
  • Andrea Mambretti, IBM Research Europe - Zurich
  • Anita Nikolich, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
  • Bart Coppens, Ghent University
  • Behzad Ousat, Florida International University
  • Daniel Gruss, Graz University of Technology
  • Daniel Plohmann, Fraunhofer FKIE
  • Daniele Antonioli, EURECOM
  • Daniele Cono D'Elia, Sapienza University of Rome
  • David Klein, Technische Universität Braunschweig
  • Eleonora Losiouk, University of Padua
  • Fabio Pagani, Binarly
  • Fabio Pierazzi, King's College London
  • Flavio Toffalini, RUB
  • Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis
  • Ilya Grishchenko, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Jan Wichelmann, Universität zu Lübeck
  • Johannes Kinder, LMU Munich
  • Juan Caballero, IMDEA Software Institute
  • Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Kaan Onarlioglu, Akamai
  • Kimberly Tam, University of Plymouth / Alan Turing Institute
  • Konrad Rieck, TU Berlin
  • Manuel Egele, Boston University
  • Marco Cova, VMware
  • Martina Lindorfer, TU Wien
  • Michael Meier, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer FKIE
  • Michael Schwarz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
  • Michele Carminati, Politecnico di Milano
  • Moritz Schloegel, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
  • Ricardo J. Rodríguez, Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
  • Roland Yap, National University of Singapore
  • Seungwon Shin, KAIST
  • Silvia Sebastián, CISPA
  • Simon Koch, TU Braunschweig
  • Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano
  • Stijn Volckaert, DistriNet, KU Leuven
  • Sven Dietrich, City University of New York
  • Tapti Palit, UC Davis
  • Urko Zurutuza, Mondragon Unibertsitatea
  • Vasileios Kemerlis, Brown University
  • Vasilios Mavroudis, Alan Turing Institute
  • Veelasha Moonsamy, Ruhr University Bochum
  • Vinod Yegneswaran, SRI
  • Yang Zhang, CISPA
  • Yinzhi Cao, Johns Hopkins University

Publication chair

  • Michele Carminati

Poster chair

  • Tarini Saka

General chair

Steering committee

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

Venue: Graz University of Technology

Front view of Graz University of Technology

DIMVA will be held in the Aula of the historic main building of Graz University of Technology (aka "old campus"). You can reach it via tram lines 1 or 7 from station "Mayffredygasse" within 3 minutes, via tram line 3 from stations "Mandellstraße" or "Rechbauerstraße" within 3-4 minutes, or via tram line 6 from station "Dietrichsteinplatz" within 8 minutes. Navigation via Google Maps works fine in Graz. You can buy tickets via the OEBB website or app, or at the ticket machine inside the trams.

As the campus is located right in the city center, there are many hotels and apartments around so that it is easy to find an accommodation that meets your expectations.

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