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Andy Greenberg

@a_greenberg
154 posts
2026-03-04
A full iOS exploit toolkit, “Coruna,” has been found in the wild, hacking iPhones that visited infected websites, used by Russian spies targeting Ukrainians and thieves targeting Chinese crypto holders. And it may have been created for the US government. https://www.wired.com/...
2026-03-04 View on X
Wired

Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government

A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more.

2026-01-27
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. 🧵👇 https://www.wired.com/...
2026-01-27 View on X
Wired

Documents: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage

A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials …

2025-07-22
On the one-year anniversary of CrowdStrike's disastrous crashes that took down millions of computers worldwide, a new study finds 750-plus hospital networks in the US were disrupted, and 200-plus appear to have had outages of patient medical services. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-07-22 View on X
Wired

Researchers: at least 750 US hospitals faced disruptions on the day of last year's big CrowdStrike outage, and 200+ had outages related to patient care services

When, one year ago today … Jeff Tully : New research from the UC San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity: in a paper published in JAMA Network Open, we describe disruptions …...

2025-04-29
Flaws in Apple's AirPlay protocol for streaming media to speakers, TVs, and set-top boxes have left millions of these devices vulnerable to being hijacked by any hacker on the same Wifi network. Many of these devices never receive patches. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-04-29 View on X
Wired

Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that could affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple has patched its own devices

Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network …

2025-02-10
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. https://www.wired.com/...
2025-02-10 View on X
Wired

Inside Binance compliance boss and ex-IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan's imprisonment in Nigeria, relayed via texts from a secret phone, over money laundering charges

As a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan pioneered modern crypto investigations.  Then at Binance, he got trapped between … Mastodon: @agreenberg@infosec.exchange . X: @a_greenberg ...

2025-01-22
For anyone feeling nostalgic on the occasion of Ross Ulbricht's pardon, here's my interview with him (as the Dread Pirate Roberts) from 2013, just a few months before his arrest: https://www.forbes.com/...
2025-01-22 View on X
New York Times

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, a crypto and libertarian cult hero serving a life sentence since 2015 on money laundering, drug charges, and more

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

2024-11-23
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. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-11-23 View on X
Wired

Researchers detail a “nearest neighbor attack” by Russia's APT28, which remotely breached a target's Wi-Fi by hijacking a laptop in a building across the street

The “Nearest Neighbour attack” (very cool name, btw) involves connecting with nearby organizations and using their Wi-Fi networks to reach the main target organization. … @xpnsec.c...

2024-10-24
Tigran Gambaryan, the Binance exec and former IRS crypto tracer jailed in Nigeria for the last eight months until charges were dropped yesterday, just texted me that his plane has taken off from Abuja. He's on his way home. Updating our story: https://www.wired.com/...
2024-10-24 View on X
New York Times

How the US and Nigeria wrestled over Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan's detention in February 2024, which US officials said hurt the two allies' relationship

The United States and Nigeria often collaborate.  But the arrest of an American worker strained their diplomatic relations.

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: https://www.wired.com/...
2024-10-24 View on X
Wired

A profile of ZachXBT, a twentysomething X user with 650K+ followers who tracks down crypto scams and thefts, and has received $1.3M+ in donations since 2021

He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim.  And he has never shown his face. X: @a_greenberg and @zachxbt ...

2024-10-23
After 8 months, Nigeria drops charges against Tigran Gambaryan, jailed former IRS crypto investigator turned Binance exec, on medical grounds. Family isn't commenting. Supporters are waiting for confirmation he's free. But “it's a good day,” one says. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-10-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Nigeria drops charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, detained since February 2024; sources say the case was discontinued due to his ill health

How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay … Hello World

2024-10-17
US has charged two men with running Anonymous Sudan, hackers who disrupted ChatGPT, Microsoft, Israel's missile alert system among hundreds of targets. One faces a max life sentence for his attacks on hospitals with alleged intent to kill. That's a first. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-10-17 View on X
Washington Post

The US charges two Sudanese brothers with running Anonymous Sudan, a cyberattack-for-hire gang allegedly responsible for 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year

Government says two brothers targeted big U.S. corporations, a hospital and an Israeli defense system in a mostly ideologically driven operation.

2024-10-10
In 2020, IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan seized 69,370 bitcoins stolen from the Silk Road drug market. Now, as those coins are set to be sold off by the US gov—$4.4 billion, the biggest criminal seizure ever to flow into the treasury—he's in jail in Nigeria. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-10-10 View on X
Wired

A SCOTUS decision means that the US now legally owns the 69,370 BTC obtained during its Silk Road probe; the ex-IRS agent who seized them is in a Nigerian jail

The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US.

2024-09-07
Intelligence agencies and FBI/DOJ have revealed that unit 29155 of Russia's GRU—a unit responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings—is now engaged in brazen hacking operations with targets across the world, including in Ukraine and the US. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-09-07 View on X
Wired

The US and allies reveal that hacker group Cadet Blizzard is part of Russia's GRU Unit 29155, which is responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and more

There has been a lot of talk this week about Putin paying “useful idiots” to spread his propaganda. … X: @dojnatsec : Five Russian GRU Officers and One Civilian Charged for Conspir...

Parents, are you monitoring what your teens are up to online? If not, they may well be carrying out cyberattacks against the Ukrainian government as part of a notorious sabotage and assassination unit of Russian military intelligence. [image]
2024-09-07 View on X
Wired

The US and allies reveal that hacker group Cadet Blizzard is part of Russia's GRU Unit 29155, which is responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and more

There has been a lot of talk this week about Putin paying “useful idiots” to spread his propaganda. … X: @dojnatsec : Five Russian GRU Officers and One Civilian Charged for Conspir...

2024-09-06
Intelligence agencies and FBI/DOJ have revealed that unit 29155 of Russia's GRU—a unit responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings—is now engaged in brazen hacking operations with targets across the world, including in Ukraine and the US. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-09-06 View on X
Wired

The US and allies reveal that hacker group Cadet Blizzard is part of Russia's GRU Unit 29155, which is responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and more

Unit 29155 of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings …

Parents, are you monitoring what your teens are up to online? If not, they may well be carrying out cyberattacks against the Ukrainian government as part of a notorious sabotage and assassination unit of Russian military intelligence. [image]
2024-09-06 View on X
Wired

The US and allies reveal that hacker group Cadet Blizzard is part of Russia's GRU Unit 29155, which is responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and more

Unit 29155 of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency—a team responsible for coup attempts, assassinations, and bombings …

2024-08-28
For the 10th birthday of Signal, I did a Big Interview with its president @mer__edith. We ended up talking about how her focus for Signal goes beyond encryption or privacy, to creating an alternative to surveillance capitalism—or even capitalism, period. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-08-28 View on X
Wired

Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the app's 10th anniversary, its EU focus, being a nonprofit, Pavel Durov's arrest, X, the US election, and more

On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president wants to remind you that the world's most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. Mastodon: @KathyReid@aus.social and @baldur@too...

2024-08-16
Following news that the Trump campaign says it was hacked by Iran, Google now says one group working for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has targeted both campaigns, going after a dozen individuals associated with Trump and Biden in May and June. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-08-16 View on X
Wired

Google says Iran-backed hacking group APT42 has targeted the Trump and Biden campaigns, as well as Israeli military, government, and diplomatic organizations

Andy Greenberg / Wired :

2024-08-15
Following news that the Trump campaign says it was hacked by Iran, Google now says one group working for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has targeted both campaigns, going after a dozen individuals associated with Trump and Biden in May and June. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-08-15 View on X
Wired

Google says Iran-backed hacking group APT42 has targeted the Trump and Biden campaigns, as well as Israeli military, government, and diplomatic organizations

APT42, which is believed to work for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump …

2024-08-04
This is as good a plan as any to note that I'll be in Vegas next week to cover Black Hat and Defcon in person for the first time in a few years, hope to bring you more fun hacker stories and/or see you there.
2024-08-04 View on X
Wired

A look at RayV Lite, an open-source laser hacking tool built by two hackers for less than $500 that can reverse engineer chips and exploit their vulnerabilities

The RayV Lite will make it hundreds of times cheaper for anyone to carry out physics-bending feats of hardware hacking.