Black Hat is a technical cybersecurity conference series founded by Jeff Moss that has operated international information-security events since its founding. Black Hat's Twitter Score is 23 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #42,720 (top 10%) among 484,166 tracked accounts.
Black Hat was founded by Jeff Moss and has grown into one of the most recognized venues for technical security research, running annual events under the Briefings, Trainings, and Summits format. UBM Tech acquired Black Hat for $10 million in 2005, according to an Informa investor presentation, and the series is currently affiliated with Informa PLC / Informa Festivals. Black Hat partners with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to provide pro-bono legal consultations for researchers presenting at its events.
Black Hat has maintained a consistent focus on blockchain and cryptocurrency security within its programming. A dedicated briefing in 2020 examined vulnerabilities in multi-party computation and threshold-signature implementations used by cryptocurrency wallets, and a 2018 session at Black Hat USA covered techniques for reconstructing and analyzing terminated Ethereum smart contracts. The 2026 training catalog includes a course titled "Hackable. Sol, Introduction to Smart Contract Hacking" within its dedicated Crypto track.
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