Andy Greenberg is a prominent American technology journalist and author specializing in cybersecurity, hacking, surveillance, intelligence, and information freedom. He serves as a senior writer for WIRED magazine, where he has been employed since 2014, covering major stories on hacking, cybersecurity, and surveillance. Prior to WIRED, he worked as a staff writer and senior reporter at Forbes magazine and as a contributor to Forbes.com. His reporting has covered major cybersecurity stories, including interviews and citations of key figures such as Shlomo Kramer, Marcus Hutchins, and Jack Rhysider, and he has contributed to events such as the RSA Conference, where he is noted for over 15 years of coverage in the field. He has professional collaborations including supervision by Gideon Gil and collaboration with Bill Thomas. Greenberg is the author of several influential books on digital security, cyber threats, and information freedom, including his debut 'This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Hacktivists and Cypherpunks Aim to Free the World’s Information' (2012), named one of the top ten greatest tech books of all time by The Verge; 'Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers' (2019); and 'Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency' (2022), which detail global cyber conflicts and cryptocurrency-related crime. These works and excerpts published in WIRED have won awards including two Gerald Loeb Awards for distinguished business and financial reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Cornelius Ryan Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club.