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Andy Greenberg

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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. agreenberg@wired.com. Andy.01 on Signal.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today, @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:
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks Ioana!
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks Alex. Very much looking forward to seeing your Elon mega-doc.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Full interview here: www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n... Very grateful to @nprfreshair.bsky.social for having me on to talk about this.
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Inside a 'modern slavery situation' where cyber scammers are victims themselves
Wired's Andy Greenberg explains how a cybercrime operation in Southeast Asia trapped computer engineers into defrauding victims of billions of dollars. Plus, he discusses the scam involving Fresh Air.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For 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.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Using 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...
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How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thanks Klint. Miss seeing your byline in Wired!
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Google'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.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As 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...
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An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply Chain Hacking Gang
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group has revealed it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner c...
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Kenn White @kennwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is terrific. Some of the best security journalism in the world.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Something 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...
Image showing headshots of WIRED writers Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman, with the WIRED logo and words 'Kernel Panic'—the name of their newly launched newsletter
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a big day for WIRED -- and a fantastic way to read/watch/hear our stories. DOWNLOAD!!!
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: 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.
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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Telegram 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...
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Incredible 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. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I 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.
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Confer — Think out loud. Off the record.
A complete AI assistant — writing, images, web search, memory. Every conversation is end-to-end encrypted, so no one else can read it.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
(Apologies for the insane number of typos in these posts. That's how you can tell I'm not writing them with an LLM.)
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Proton'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.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I 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...
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Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To
Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/08/2026
Records 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.
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CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Records 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.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Tomorrow they're presenting their findings at the Usenix Cybersecurity Conference. You can read our full story on their work here: www.wired.com/story/this-c... As scary as it sounds, it's worth remembering that this kind of research is designed to make air travel safer. /end
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This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
Security researchers found that in less than 60 seconds, they could open a hatch on a plane’s exterior, plug in a tiny device, and redirect the aircraft’s autopilot or sabotage its flight plan.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Their physical access attack might be the most practical plane hacking proof-of-concept ever pulled off. It's the result of more than a decade of testing on tens of thousands of secondhand Boeing computer components they assembled into their own avionics hacking testbed.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The UCSD/Oberlin College researchers aren't revealing details like the port they targeted or how they spoofed specific commandss. But they demoed their work for Boeing and are pushing for changes to aviation security to prevent this kind of attack from ever being carried out in the wild.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Their tiny implant takes less than a minute to insert and could be placed by anyone with access to the plane on the ground. The result, they warn, could be runway overruns, flights silently commandeered into another country's airspace, or catastrophic crashes.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A hacking device the size of a quarter can be plugged into a port accessible from the exterior of a Boeing 737 to change its autopilot navigation or tamper with values used to calculate its takeoff speed, a group of security researchers has shown. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/this-c...
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This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
Security researchers found that in less than 60 seconds, they could open a hatch on a plane’s exterior, plug in a tiny device, and redirect the aircraft’s autopilot or sabotage its flight plan.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
All of this is being presented today at Black Hat by security researchers Vangelis Stykas and Felipe Solferini. Moral of the story: careful what technology you strap to your kid. /end
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There are so many of these devices/brands/resellers, in fact, that neither the researchers nor we at WIRED could test them individually. But we reached out to all of them, and you can see a table of their responses in our full story here: www.wired.com/story/hacker...
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Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Two other platforms the researchers found security flaws in, SinoTrack and NewGPS2012, never responded and don't appear to have fixed anything. Together the three Chinese companies serve as backends for tens of millions of GPS devices, dozens of brands, sold around the world.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
That platform, China-based SETracker, ignored the researchers' bug reports for months and denied their findings when we at WIRED inquired. Only when I sent evidence (like this picture the researchers silently took of me at my desk, plus eavesdropped audio) did they fix anything.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...
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Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
NEW: DHS wants to pay private contractors bounties to hunt down people who already left the country, photograph their homes, and demand money. It told them leaving the US would wipe out fines. It was the pitch for self-deporting. Experts tell WIRED this is a pointless escalation of tactics.
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DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NEW: OpenAI's rogue agents built their own message board inside an internal package manager and used it to trade exploits, divide up tasks, and coordinate a hacking spree. Hundreds of thousands of messages. Nobody at OpenAI noticed. New details from Black Hat, by @lhn.bsky.social:
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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
At Black Hat, security researcher Vangelis Stykas reveals what he found by lurking inside North Korean hackers’ infrastructure for nearly two years: They got footholds inside 1,640 networks, by his count. About half of those intrusions were serious breaches. www.wired.com/story/a-secu...
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A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
A Minnesota state fusion center report ties the cyberattacks on 30+ Minnesota water utilities to Iranian-affiliated hackers, according to a water utility information sharing group's memo I obtained. www.wired.com/story/a-leak...
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A Leaked Memo Ties Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Utilities to Iran
A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Scam researchers told a Claude agent and human "scammers" to text test subjects and build a relationship. After a week, subjects said they trusted the AI more than the human and almost half were willing to install an app at its request. Almost none detected it was AI. www.wired.com/story/ai-sca...
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AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
For the devices where the owner declined to pay for it, the patch turns off all Bluetooth signals, the researchers tell me. Not yet sure about the patch for the active, paid devices.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You can also read our full story here: www.wired.com/story/a-devi... Please check your car—particularly if it was ever sold in Southern California, where KARR is most widely used—and if you have the device, patch it now. /end
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A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In our latest episode of WIRED's Hacklab video series, UCSD's researchers talk through their discovery—which they'll present at Defcon next month—how to check if you have KARR in your car, and how to install the security update to fix its flaws if you do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwA3...
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I Stole a Car By Hacking This Hidden Device
YouTube video by WIRED Investigations
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As a result, the device is in over 2 million cars, about half of whose owners told dealers they didn't want it, by UCSD's estimate. They may not have any idea it's inside their vehicle. Yet it's beaconing and can be "activated" instantly by a hacker and hijacked for theft or chaotic effects.
The UCSD team’s proof of concept app offers a menu of hacking options that the KARR vulnerability makes possible as well as a list of nearby cars whose Bluetooth signals show they have the vulnerable KARR device installed.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
UCSD warned KARR's manufacturer, who has now pushed out a fix. The complication: KARR is typically installed by dealers to prevent theft from their lots. If a buyer doesn't want it as an add-on, the dealer still leaves it wired in under the hood anyway in a "deactivated" state.
The KARR Security System alarm.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Researchers at UCSD found the KARR car alarm has vulnerabilities that let a hacker in Bluetooth range unlock a car, immobilize it, or trigger horns and lights. They can even hack a parking lot full of vehicles—or stealthily steal one—as we demoed in the video below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwA3...
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I Stole a Car By Hacking This Hidden Device
YouTube video by WIRED Investigations
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A car alarm device, KARR, inside millions of cars has a security flaw that lets hackers unlock, track, even paralyze vehicles. There's a patch. The problem? Half of car owners who have the device installed didn't ask for it, and may not even know it's there. Thread👇 www.wired.com/story/a-devi...
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A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
You can also read our full story here: www.wired.com/story/a-devi... Please check your car—particularly if it was ever sold in Southern California, where KARR is most widely used—and if you have the device, patch it now. /end
wired.com
A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In our latest episode of WIRED's Hacklab video series, UCSD's researchers talk through their discovery—which they'll present at Defcon next month—how to check if you have KARR in your car, and how to install the security update to fix its flaws if you do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwA3...
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I Stole a Car By Hacking This Hidden Device
YouTube video by WIRED Investigations
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As a result, the device is in over 2 million cars, about half of whose owners told dealers they didn't want it, by UCSD's estimate. They may not have any idea it's inside their vehicle. Yet it's beaconing and can be "activated" instantly by a hacker and hijacked for theft or chaotic effects.
The UCSD team’s proof of concept app offers a menu of hacking options that the KARR vulnerability makes possible as well as a list of nearby cars whose Bluetooth signals show they have the vulnerable KARR device installed.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
UCSD warned KARR's manufacturer, who has now pushed out a fix. The complication: KARR is typically installed by dealers to prevent theft from their lots. If a buyer doesn't want it as an add-on, the dealer still leaves it wired in under the hood anyway in a "deactivated" state.
The KARR Security System alarm.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Researchers at UCSD found the KARR car alarm has vulnerabilities that let a hacker in Bluetooth range unlock a car, immobilize it, or trigger horns and lights. They can even hack a parking lot full of vehicles—or stealthily steal one—as we demoed in the video below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwA3...
youtube.com
I Stole a Car By Hacking This Hidden Device
YouTube video by WIRED Investigations
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A car alarm device, KARR, inside millions of cars has a security flaw that lets hackers unlock, track, even paralyze vehicles. There's a patch. The problem? Half of car owners who have the device installed didn't ask for it, and may not even know it's there. Thread👇 www.wired.com/story/a-devi...
wired.com
A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now
Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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