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Joe Bernstein

The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story

By: Andy Greenberg   |   Wired   |   Nov 2023
Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI.
Joe Bernstein

They Cracked the Code to a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird

By: Andy Greenberg   |   Wired   |   Oct 2023
Stefan Thomas lost the password to an encrypted USB drive holding 7,002 bitcoins. One team of hackers believes they can unlock it—if they can get Thomas to let them.
Joe Bernstein

They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War

By: Andy Greenberg   |   Wired   |   April 2021
Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.
Joe Bernstein

The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History

By: Andy Greenberg   |   wired   |   October 2019
How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.
Joe Bernstein

The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet

By: Andy Greenberg   |   Wired   |   May 2020
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
Joe Bernstein

The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin

By: Andy Greenberg   |   Wired   |   Oct 2022
The notorious Alpha02 oversaw millions of dollars a day in online narcotic sales. For cybercrime detectives, he was public enemy number one—and a total mystery.
Joe Bernstein

The Plot to Free North Korea With Smuggled Episodes of ‘Friends’

By: Andy Greenberg   |   Wired   |   https://www.wired.com/2015/03/north-korea/
Kang Chol-hwan’s goal, as wildly optimistic as it may sound, is nothing less than the overthrow of the North Korean government.