Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places) (@a

Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)

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Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)

@a_greenberg

WIRED writer, author of SANDWORM and now TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency. Andy.01 on Signal. [email protected]

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Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Jan 27
Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He proceeded to leak a huge trove of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
From wired.com
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Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Jun 16, 2022
A wild, appalling story: A group of hackers fabricated evidence on the PCs of Indian human rights activists who were then arrested for terrorism and jailed. Now researchers have found a direct link between those hackers and the police making the arrests.
Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists
From wired.com
Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Feb 10, 2025
As an IRS agent, Tigran Gambaryan was perhaps the most effective crypto investigator ever. Then last year he was charged in Nigeria with money laundering and thrown in prison. Throughout, he was texting me from a secret phone. This is his full story.
The Untold Story of a Crypto Crimefighter’s Descent Into Nigerian Prison
From wired.com
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Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Feb 2, 2022
For weeks, observers of North Korea have noted that the country's internet seemed to be under attack, with all its websites down at times. This wasn't the work of US Cyber Command. It was a single hacker getting even after NK spies targeted him last year.
North Korea Hacked Him. So He Took Down Its Internet
From wired.com
Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
May 12, 2020
Three years ago today, Marcus Hutchins stopped WannaCry, an $8 billion cyberattack. Then the FBI arrested him. Today we're publishing a 14,000-word cover story that finally tells his full, untold tale, from 15yo criminal to hero to convict to redemption.
The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
From wired.com
Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Sep 10, 2020
Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Aug 22, 2018
For the last year, I’ve been reporting out what it felt like to be inside a company hit by NotPetya, the unprecedented $10 billion cyberattack. The result is this WIRED cover story: how Russian malware took down Maersk, the world’s largest shipping firm.
The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
From wired.com
Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
May 20, 2021
In 2011, RSA was hacked by Chinese spies, who stole the "seed" values used to generate codes on SecurID 2fa tokens, shocking the security world. Now, after 10 years, the NDAs of the staff involved have expired. This is the untold story they shared with me:
The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told
From wired.com
Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Sep 9, 2017
Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of Sneakers, very possibly the greatest hacker movie of all time
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Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Oct 19, 2020
Big news: DOJ today unsealed charges against Sandworm, naming the Russian GRU hackers who have for 5 years crossed every red line in cyberwar from blackouts to disrupting the Olympics to unleashing the NotPetya worm that cost $10 billion. wired.com/story/us-indic… < Updates to come
US Indicts Sandworm, Russia's Most Destructive Cyberwar Unit
From wired.com
Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Jun 16, 2023
Lots of well deserved remembrances of Ellsberg’s heroism today. I’ll just post my favorite passage from his incredible memoir, Secrets. He’s telling Henry Kissinger (who as many have noted is somehow still alive) what access to truly secret information can do to a person’s mind.
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Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Nov 22, 2024
Russian spies—likely Russia's GRU intelligence agency—used a new trick to hack a victim in Washington, DC: They remotely infected another network in a building across the street, hijacked a laptop there, then breached the target organization via its Wifi.
Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
From wired.com
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Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Oct 24, 2024
Since 2021, crypto sleuth @zachxbt has helped recover nearly half a billion $ for scam/theft victims. Last month he cracked a $243m heist, the biggest ever to target a single person. He's never revealed his name or face, but spoke to me for this profile:
Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts
From wired.com
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Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)
@a_greenberg
Nov 1, 2023
As a Jewish person, allow me to weigh in on antisemitism: If you're supporting the wholesale, ongoing, indiscriminate killing of children in Gaza by saying it's in defense of Jewish people, *that* is anti-semitism.
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