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Writer for WIRED. Author of SANDWORM. Latest book, TRACERS IN THE DARK: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, out now. [email protected]. Andy.01 on Signal.
@agreenberg.bsky.social PinnedLast year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials.
Then he had to get out alive. This is his story.
🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
@katie-drummond.bsky.socialReposted by @agreenberg.bsky.socialToday, @wired.com is publishing Choke Points, an 18-month investigation into how Israel’s network of checkpoints, gates, and roadblocks is reshaping daily life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
A thread on the reporting, and what we found:
@agreenberg.bsky.socialThanks Ioana!
@agreenberg.bsky.socialThanks Alex. Very much looking forward to seeing your Elon mega-doc.
@agreenberg.bsky.socialFull interview here: www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
Very grateful to @nprfreshair.bsky.social for having me on to talk about this.
@agreenberg.bsky.socialFor anyone who heard me tell Red Bull’s story again on Fresh Air today: He still needs your help. Please see the GoFundMe, which I have vetted, below. And thank you for whatever you can give.
@agreenberg.bsky.socialUsing AI in many cases means sending your most sensitive and intimate thoughts to a server where they can be exploited as training data, sold to ad brokers, or even handed to law enforcement.
So I assembled this guide to using AI with your privacy intact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
@agreenberg.bsky.socialThanks Klint. Miss seeing your byline in Wired!
@agreenberg.bsky.socialGoogle's Austin Larsen will also detail in a talk today at the LABScon conference how a rival cybercrime group, ShinyHunters, betrayed TeamPCP and leaked its data, and how he found the identity of Ruben Ian Thomson, who has since been arrested and charged as one the group's alleged key members.
@agreenberg.bsky.socialAs the TeamPCP cybercrime group carried out an unprecedented spree of software supply chain hacking this year, it had been infiltrated by an undercover analyst from Google's threat intel division. Google watched from inside, warned victims, even disrupted extortions. www.wired.com/story/an-und...
@kennwhite.bsky.socialReposted by @agreenberg.bsky.socialThis is terrific. Some of the best security journalism in the world.
@mattburgess1.bsky.socialReposted by @agreenberg.bsky.socialSomething new from me and @lhn.bsky.social!
Starting tomorrow we're launching Kernel Panic, a security and privacy newsletter from @wired.com
Sign-up here (if that's your thing): www.wired.com/newsletter/e...
@harmancipants.bsky.socialReposted by @agreenberg.bsky.socialThis is a big day for WIRED -- and a fantastic way to read/watch/hear our stories. DOWNLOAD!!!
@dmehro.bsky.socialReposted by @agreenberg.bsky.socialNEW: Hackers cut down a Flock camera, dumped its internal storage, and shared the files w/ WIRED and 404 Media. It includes thousands of videos and logs showing how the device took images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days The code reveals in new detail how Flock tracks the vehicles and people.
@agreenberg.bsky.socialTelegram looked the other way as Xinbi Guarantee, a $24 *billion* market for crypto scammers hosted on the messaging platform, grew into one of the biggest online black markets in history.
Now DOJ has finally sanctioned Xinbi and seized its Telegram channels. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/s...
@davidgilbert.bsky.socialReposted by @agreenberg.bsky.socialIncredible scoop from @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social who were able to recreate Flock's new AI-powered tool that lets police officers ID drivers and track vehicles—capabilities the company has repeatedly said it doesn't allow.
@agreenberg.bsky.socialI haven't fully explored all the options in this area, I have tried out Confer.to and it seems to offer more technical assurances of your privacy than Lumo does.
@agreenberg.bsky.social(Apologies for the insane number of typos in these posts. That's how you can tell I'm not writing them with an LLM.)
@agreenberg.bsky.socialProton's Lumo AI chatbot doesn't actually cryptographically protect your chats with it. Proton just promises not to log them. But Yen actual committed in our interview to a switching to model where cryptography creates an enclave on the server where Proton technically cannot look at your chats.
@agreenberg.bsky.socialI spoke with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, which has encrypted the daily online work/comms a hundred million-plus people.
We talked in particular about Proton's surprising embrace of AI, like its chatbot Lumo. Yen says "AI is surveillance." He also says it's "unavoidable."
www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
@wired.comReposted by @agreenberg.bsky.socialRecords obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.
