Organizers of major hacking conferences in Asia put them on hold due to Coronavirus outbreak

February 16, 2020  By Pierluigi Paganini


Organizers of Black Hat Asia and DEF CON China security conferences announced that they put the events on hold due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

Bad news for cybersecurity passionates and experts, organizers of Black Hat Asia and DEF CON China security conferences announced last week that they have put the events on hold due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

The announcements come after the organizations of another important tech even, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, announced that the meeting has been canceled due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

The organizer of the Black Hat Asia conference announced that they have decided to postpone the event in the fall this year to protect the health and safety of the attendees.

“After careful consideration of the health and safety of our attendees and partners, we have made the difficult decision to postpone Black Hat Asia 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak. We understand the inconvenience this may cause and will follow up directly with all of those who are scheduled to attend and exhibit to determine appropriate next steps.” reads the notice published on the official website of the conference.

“Please know we are planning to host Black Hat Asia 2020 in the fall this year.”

The event was scheduled between March 31- April 3 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, where authorities raised the risk assessment DORSCON Orange, which means that the disease is severe and spreads easily from person to person.

It is not clear if the organizers will refund people that bought the tickets and will not be able to participate in the fall.

Organizers of another important cyber security conference, DEF CON China 2.0 (initially planned between 17-19 April in Beijing), already announced at the end of January the decision to postpone the event due to the coronavirus outbreak.

“In light of global precautions being announced to combat the coronavirus outbreak, we’ve decided to postpone DEF CON China 2.0. We regret inconveniencing any of you. Know that we are committed to holding the event once it’s safe to do so.” reads a post on the event’s forum.

“If you want a refund on purchased tickets, please submit a refund request to your ticket broker. If you’d rather that we hold your reservation for our new dates, you don’t have to do anything and we’ll keep your tickets on file.”

The organizers accept refund requests from participants that have bought the tickets for the event.

Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – Coronavirus outbreak, hacking)



Pierluigi Paganini
Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.





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