TAKEDOWN

Scope

Cybercrime has increasingly evolved into Crime-as-a-Service (CaaS) ecosystems, where specialized actors provide tools, infrastructure, and services that lower barriers to entry and enable both purely digital and cyber-assisted physical crime. These developments demand security research that goes beyond malware analysis to include detection pipelines, adversarial marketplaces, and a human-centered understanding of cybercriminal behavior.

The TAKEDOWN Workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners studying the technical, behavioral, and systemic dimensions of cybercrime, with particular emphasis on detecting and disrupting service-based criminal ecosystems and the human actors who operate them.

We invite submissions across three categories: full papers, short papers (including position papers and experience reports), and dataset papers, covering original research, work-in-progress, and novel datasets.

Topics of Interest

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas.

Submission guidelines

Papers that do not comply with the following requirements will be desk-rejected.

• Submissions must be written in English.
• All submissions must be received by 11:59 PM AoE (UTC-12) on the day of the corresponding deadline.
• Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or accepted for publication, or that are simultaneously in submission to a journal, conference, or workshop with published proceedings. All submissions should be properly anonymized. Papers should avoid revealing authors' identity in the text. When referring to their previous work, authors are required to cite their papers in the third person, without identifying themselves. In the unusual case in which a third-person reference is infeasible, authors can blind the reference itself. Papers not properly anonymized may be rejected without review.
• All articles must respect the page limits of the corresponding category (full, short, and dataset) excluding references and clearly labeled appendices, with an absolute maximum length of 12 pages. Reviewers are not obligated to read appendices, so the main paper should remain self-contained and understandable without them.
• Submissions must be provided in PDF format and adhere strictly to the ACM formatting guidelines. Authors should follow the main ACM CCS'26 formatting instructions, except for the page limits specified above. Moreover, all submissions must comply with the "Use of Generative AI" policy described in the main page of CCS.
• At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop and present the work in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings.

Ethical Considerations

All papers must contain an Ethical Considerations appendix that follows the requirements laid out in the CCS Submission Policies and Instructions. For more details you may refer to the corresponding part of the CCS Call for Papers.

Important Dates

All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Submissions

Submission Site

Submission link: https://takedown26.hotcrp.com/

Review Process

The workshop follows a double-blind review process with at least 3 reviews per submission. Conflicts of interest are declared and managed via HotCRP. All accepted papers will be published in the ACM CCS workshops’ proceedings.

Committee

Program Chairs

Program Committee