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

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'' magazine and as a contributor for Forbes.com. He has published the books '' This Machine Kills Secrets'' concerning

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, ''Sandworm'', concerning the eponymous hacking group, and ''Tracers in the Dark'', concerning cryptocurrency tracing as a law enforcement investigative technique.

Writing

Greenberg's July 2015 article about Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek's

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hack resulted in the recall of 1.4 million vehicles by

Chrysler FCA US, LLC, Trade name, doing business as Stellantis North America and known historically as Chrysler ( ), is one of the "Big Three (automobile manufacturers), Big Three" automobile manufacturers in the United States, headquartered in Auburn H ...

. 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 '' Deep Web'', about the trial of

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. 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 an excerpt of his book ''Sandworm'' published in Wired, "The Code that Crashed the World: The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History". His 2019 book ''Sandworm'' focuses on Russia's cyberwar in Ukraine starting in 2014. It follows the trail of Russia's most active cyberwarfare unit, known as Sandworm, and describes how digital detectives unraveled its "Olympic Destroyer"

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and traced it so far that they could attribute it to Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU. An excerpt of his 2022 book ''Tracers in the Dark'' published in Wired, "The Crypto Trap: Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web's Biggest Child Abuse Site", received the 2023 Gerald Loeb award for Feature articles.

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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