Andy Greenberg.
Sandworm: a new era of cyberwar and the hunt for the Kremlin's mosk dangerous hackers.
Anchor. 2019
In 2017, the world witnessed the largest and most destructive cyberattack in history.
A mysterious piece of malware known as NotPetya paralyzed drug and food manufacturing,
shipping, hospitals, postal systems, and ATMs, inflicting an unprecedented $10 billion worth of damage.
The hackers behind it quickly gained a reputation for being the internet’s
most brazen and dangerous team of cyberwarriors:
a highly skilled group known as Sandworm,
working in the service of Russia’s military intelligence agency.
From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes a gripping true account of the desperate hunt to identify and track the elite Russian agents behind the most devastating cyberattack the world has ever seen. As the Kremlin’s role in foreign government manipulation comes into greater focus, Sandworm exposes the realities not just of Russia’s global digital offensive, but of an era when warfare ceases to be waged on the battlefield. This chilling, globe-spanning detective story reveals how the lines between digital and physical conflict, between wartime and peacetime, have begun to blur—with world-shaking implications.