The seventh edition of the Journal on Cybercrime & Digital investigations is dedicated to the publication of the papers and short papers prepared for Botconf 2022, the botnet fighting conference, whose ninth edition was held in Nantes, France, from April 26 to 29th 2022. This edition’s summary:

• Long papers:
  • Into The Silent Night Yuta Sawabe, Ryuichi Tanabe, Fumio Ozawa, Rintaro Koike
  • Detect emerging malware on cloud before VirusTotal can see it Thanh Nguyen, Gan Feng, Andreas Pfadler, Anastasia Poliakova, Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi, Hongliang Liu, Yuriy Yuzifovich
  • Yara: Down the Rabbit Hole Without Slowing Down Dominika Regéciová
  • Private Clubs For Hackers, How Private Forums Shape The Malware Market Renaud Zbinden, Sandra Langel, Olivier Beaudet-Labrecque, David Décary-Hétu, Luca Brunoni