Andy Greenberg is a technology journalist serving as a senior writer at ''

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'' magazine. He previously worked as a staff writer at ''

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'' magazine and as a

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for

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. He has published the books '' This Machine Kills Secrets'' concerning

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as well as ''Sandworm'', concerning the eponymous hacking group.

Writing

Greenberg's July 2015 article about

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and Chris Valasek's

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hack resulted in the recall of 1.4 million vehicles by

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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 ''

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'' Editors' Choice. He is featured in the 2015 documentary film ''

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'', about the trial of Ross Ulbricht. In 2014, Greenberg was nominated along with Ryan Mac for a

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for their Forbes Magazine article, "Big Brother's Brain". The same year, he was named as one of the

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'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"

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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:

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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. .

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