Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places)

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. 🧵👇 wired.com/story/he-leake…

Feds just took down 4 botnets, including the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets that carried out record-breaking DDOS attacks peaking at 30+ terabits per second, nearly three times the previous record. DOJ says the botnets had hijacked more than three million devices. wired.com/story/us-takes…

@ilan_peer Yes I know Moxie announced it. Moxie is not Meta

@a_greenberg x.com/moxie/status/2…

It's kind of weird that Meta didn't announce this. Seems like it could be a big deal, maybe one that pressures other AI companies to follow suit. wired.com/story/signals-…

This tool has already been used in distinct hacking campaigns against Ukrainians, Malaysians, Saudi and Turkish victims. If other hackers needed any more encouragement to adopt it, too, the Russian spies who used it left it fully unobfuscated with helpful code comments legible.

A second iOS exploit has been spotted in use by Russian spies to infect websites and hack visitors' iPhones. This one works on iOS 18, and appeared in a very reusable form, so will likely proliferate. If you haven't updated your iPhone, now's the time. wired.com/story/hundreds…

NEW: Wired’s editor Katie Drummond said it added 200k new paid subs last year. She told me: “If you still don’t understand why Wired covers politics, you are either willfully ignorant or a complete idiot.” nytimes.com/2026/03/17/bus…

With its breach of med tech firm Stryker, Iranian hacker group Handala has become the most prominent face of the regime retaliatory cyberattacks. We dug into who's behind the group—named after a Palestinian cartoon character—its tactics, and its history. wired.com/story/handala-…

Good reporting by @lorenzofb to confirm what we reported as a theory last week: That the highly sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit known as Coruna, found in the hands of Russian spies and now criminal hackers, is an out-of-control US-government-funded creation. techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/an-…

Another little possible breadcrumb about the origin of Coruna, the highly sophisticated, out-of-control iOS hacking toolkit we covered earlier this week:

Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon is now part of the playbook in modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran. Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system. wired.com/story/from-ukr…

Some very interesting "opinions" from @riskybusiness about our story on the origins of a highly sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit found in the wild. Watch here: youtu.be/4MwR6dRixJo?t=…

Senator Ron Wyden and Rep. Shontel Brown are calling for an investigation into the vulnerability of modern computers to what the NSA calls TEMPEST: spy techniques that pick up devices' secrets via their accidental electromagnetic/radio/acoustic emissions. wired.com/story/how-vuln…

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. wired.com/story/coruna-i…

Amazing to see @wired's video team nominated for a National Magazine Award for our piece on 3D printing Luigi Mangione's gun. 1 of 4 WIRED nominations for DOGE coverage, our How to Win a Fight package, General Excellence. Proud to work in this newsroom. asme.memberclicks.net/national-magaz…

The FBI secretly controlled a staffer at a dark web drug market that did $100 million in sales. The informant allegedly approved the sale of drugs even after warnings they contained fentanyl—including dealers whose pills led to a confirmed overdose death. wired.com/story/an-fbi-a…

I've never had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lilyhnewman and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. wired.com/story/how-to-o…

1. I appreciate the frankness of this response. But “fighting the powerful doesn’t pay the bills” as an argument against doing it sounds pretty amoral. Or maybe just immoral. 2. I’m not on the business side or the editor-in-chief of Wired or really anybody with any power over its direction (also hardly the most adversarial or anti-tech reporter on staff!) but it seems like holding the powerful accountable has in fact paid the bills pretty well for Wired: businessinsider.com/wired-katie-dr… I’m not sure how much I’m supposed to repeat from the numbers shared in meetings, but this was not just a two-week phenomenon. So who is “the devoted audience for political editorial that holds the powerful in tech accountable”? They are Wired’s many, many subscribers over the last year.

As a practical matter, who is the devoted audience for political editorial that holds the powerful in tech accountable? Not the people who work in tech and science. And “comforting those afflicted by tech and afflicting the comfortable in tech” seems a niche topic for those who do want journalism on the barricades. Wired is declaring war on its old audience, without finding a new one, except when a big investigative piece pops. I faced this challenge at Tech Review in my last years there. The younger journalists would say to me, “We need to tell the truth about the new power of tech” (or, words to that effect), and I would say, “We really don’t. The mission of this publication is to say ‘What’s new and why it matters.’” If what’s new has a social or political dimension, let’s be smart about it. But Tech Review can’t be another pamphlet in the Kulturkampf.”

The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight. wired.com/story/crypto-f…