Andy Greenberg is a technology journalist serving as a senior writer at ''
Wired
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'' magazine. He previously worked as a staff writer at ''
Forbes
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'' magazine and as a
contributor
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for
Forbes.com
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. He has published the books ''
This Machine Kills Secrets'' concerning
whistleblowing
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as well as ''Sandworm'', concerning the
eponymous hacking group.
Writing
Greenberg's July 2015 article about
Charlie Miller
Charles Miller (born 18 March 1976) is a Scottish retired association football, footballer. He started his career at Rangers F.C., Rangers, and was voted the SPFA Young Player of the Year in 1995 during his time with the club. After spells with ...
and Chris Valasek's
Jeep
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hack resulted in the recall of 1.4 million vehicles by
Chrysler
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. On the day of the article's publication, a Bill was introduced in the U.S. Senate seeking standards to protect cars against digital hacks.
Greenberg's 2012 book ''
This Machine Kills Secrets'' was a ''
The New York Times
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'' Editors' Choice. He is featured in the 2015 documentary film ''
Deep Web
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'', about the trial of
Ross Ulbricht
Ross William Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is an American serving life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. The site operated as a hidden service on the Tor network ...
.
In 2014, Greenberg was nominated along with Ryan Mac for a
Gerald Loeb Award
The Gerald Loeb Award, also referred to as the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, is a recognition of excellence in journalism, especially in the fields of business, finance and the economy. The award was estab ...
for their Forbes Magazine article, "Big Brother's Brain". The same year, he was named as one of the
SANS Institute
The SANS Institute (officially the Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies) is a private U.S. for-profit company founded in 1989 that specializes in information security, cybersecurity training, and selling certificates. Topics available for tr ...
's Top Cybersecurity Journalist Award Winners. In 2013, his Forbes.com story "Meet The Hackers Who Sell Spies The Tools To Crack Your PC (And Get Paid Six-Figure Fees)" won "The Single Best Blog Post of the Year" award from the Security Bloggers Network.
He received the 2019
Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting for the article "The Code that Crashed the World: The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History".
In his 2019 book ''Sandworm'' he describes how digital detectives unraveled the "Olympic Destroyer"
malware
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and traced it so far that they could attribute it to Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU.
Publications
*''
This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the cypherpunks, and their fight to empower whistleblowers.'' London:
Penguin Group
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, 2012. .
*''Sandworm: a new era of cyberwar and the hunt for the Kremlin's most dangerous hackers.'' New York City: Knopf Doubleday, 2019. .
*''Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency.'' Doubleday, 2022. .
See also
*
Computer worm
A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. It often uses a computer network to spread itself, relying on security failures on the target computer to access it. It wil ...
References
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American technology journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Brooklyn
Gerald Loeb Award winners International