Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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Senior Writer at TechCrunch covering cybersecurity and hacking; previously senior staff writer at VICE Motherboard. Signal: +1 917 257 1382.

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai covers cybersecurity and digital surveillance, recently focusing on export controls, government spyware targeting journalists, and a defense contractor's leak of hacking tools to Russia.

Recent articles

• From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyoneTechCrunch · Jun 19, 2026
• Meet the team that investigates when journalists and activists get hacked with government spywareTechCrunch · Dec 27, 2025
• Inside the story of the US defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to RussiaTechCrunch · Feb 25, 2026
• These are the cybersecurity stories we were jealous of in 2025

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