HumSec 2026 will be co-located with ESORICS 2026 and held in Rome, Italy, between September 14 and 18, 2026.

**Workshop Website**: https://humsec26.github.io/

HumSec aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore human-centric cyber threats from both attack and defense perspectives, covering technical and human aspects, with a focus on real-world settings. The workshop seeks to raise awareness of the growing impact of these threats and foster cross-disciplinary collaboration to build more robust and resilient systems in practice.

We welcome submissions on phishing, scams, mis/disinformation, fraud, usable security and other research related to human-targeted threats.

**---Call For Papers---**

Topics of Interest (but not limited to)

1. Understanding, Measuring, and Characterizing Human-Targeted Cyber Threats

- Human-subjects studies (e.g., surveys) on online fraud, scams, phishing, misinformation/disinformation, harassment and online abuse

- Measurement studies that yield new insights into Human-Targeted Cyber Threats (e.g., bottlenecks)

- Analysis of attack infrastructure (e.g., phishing kits ecosystems)

- AI-driven generation of human-targeted attacks

- Emerging human-centric threats that exploit human vulnerabilities (e.g., urgency, fear, curiosity)

- Studies identifying gaps between existing defenses and real-world threats

- Governance, policy, and ethical challenges in human-centric cybersecurity

2. Countermeasures to Mitigate Human-Targeted Cyber Threats

- AI-powered defense mechanisms against human-targeted attacks

- Machine Learning or other advanced techniques for detecting and mitigating human-targeted threats (e.g., phishing detectors)

- Human factors in the design, usability and effectiveness of defense mechanisms

- Security and privacy in human-centric systems

- Adversarial robustness of defense mechanisms

- Security education and training

**---Important Dates---**

- Submission deadline: June 25, 2026 11:59PM AOE

- Notification: July 21, 2026 11:59PM AOE

- Camera-ready deadline: July 29, 2026 11:59PM AOE

**---Submission---**

- Please submit your papers via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics2026.

- Papers must be written in English, submitted as a single PDF file, anonymized for double-blind review, and must follow the official LNCS template.

- Long papers are limited to 16 pages and short papers to 8 pages, excluding references and appendices. Note that reviewers are not required to read the appendices.

**---Publication & Presentation---**

Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS collection. At least one author of each accepted paper will be required to register for the workshop and present the work orally or as a poster.