FraudZen Hackathon

Advancing Mobile Network Security, Privacy, and Fraud Detection

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About the FraudZen Hackathon

Join us for an innovative hackathon focused on enhancing mobile network security and privacy protection.
Participants will work with advanced tools, FraudZen and En-WDM, to tackle real-world challenges.

Mobile Network Architecture and Knowledge Extraction

Exploring network architecture and data dynamics to enhance mobility and traffic simulations.

Objectives:

Integrate 4G/5G/6G features into FraudZen for improved mobile network simulation
Extract insights from user data on social, mobility, and traffic patterns
Propose and validate new human mobility models or contexts within En-WDM or FraudZen
Develop and integrate new traffic models into the simulator (e.g., FraudZen)

Privacy Protection through Anonymization

Applying techniques to protect user identities in network data.

Objectives:

Implement privacy techniques to obscure user identities while addressing dataset challenges.
Investigate privacy attacks on pseudonymized datasets for potential leaks.
Propose strategies to balance privacy and data usability.

Offensive Security

Simulating fraud tactics to understand and combat SIMBox fraud.

Objectives:

Implement SIMBox fraud models that simulate realistic user behaviors and strategies
Evaluate the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of these models for fraudsters
Analyze implications for network security, including detection feasibility and integration challenges

Defensive Security

Developing advanced AI-based techniques for detecting SIMBox fraud.

Objectives:

Develop adaptive detection methods using AI to address evolving fraud behaviors
Integrate meta-learners targeting specific fraudulent behaviors into a comprehensive detection system
Establish metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of detection methods against emerging fraud strategies

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Event Details

Event Venue

Département d'Informatique - Université de Yaoundé I

Located at Decanat Faculté des Sciences, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Event Schedule

18/11/2024: Kickoff meeting, 12h-16h: View Kickoff Meeting Photos
25/11/2024: Deadline for project idea submission: Upload your project idea (PDF)
10/01/2025: Deadline for project report submission: Find information about the template Upload your project report (PDF)
03/03/2025: Final Closing Meeting, Online

Resources

Access the slides and other materials for the event below:

Project Report Template

Here you can find information about the LaTeX template. We decided to use the ACM "sigconf" proceedings template.

You will find information about the template, a user guide, and a list of approved LaTeX packages, needed fonts here: ACM Proceedings Template Information

This is the download link to the current template version: Download the Current Template Version

Another possibility for you is to use Overleaf online: ACM Large 2-Column Format Template on Overleaf

Please add the following conference to your LaTeX Template:

\documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}
\acmConference[FraudZen'25]{FraudZen Hackathon}{February 25, 2025}{Yaoundé, Cameroon}
\setcopyright{cc}
\setcctype[4.0]{by-sa}
\acmDOI{}
\acmISBN{}

Please also add keywords to your paper: ACM Computing Classification System (CCS)

Hackathon Winners!

We are excited to announce the winning team of the hackathon along with their innovative projects:

Team Members: Suzy Audrey Mako Tchinda (L3, UY1), Hermann Arnold Edu Guiedi (L3, UY1), Eddy Dortial Ntatchinda Kebound (L2, UY1)
Project Title: Prototype adaptatif pour la détection des fraudes de contournement par SIMBox
Pole: Defensive Security

Organizers Information

Contact: Anne Josiane Kouam - Email: kouam.djuigne@tu-berlin.de

Contact: Hippolyte Tapamo - Email: htapamo@gmail.com

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