Sandworm: A New Period of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Harmful Hackers

From Wired senior author Andy Greenberg comes the true story of probably the most devastating cyberattack in historical past and the determined hunt to establish and observe the elite Russian brokers behind it.

“Way more than a true-life techno-thriller…a tour via a realm that’s each invisible and important to the each day lives of each individual alive within the twenty first century.” (Los Angeles Instances)

In 2014, the world witnessed the beginning of a mysterious collection of cyberattacks. Focusing on American utility firms, NATO, and electrical grids in Jap Europe, the strikes grew ever extra brazen. They culminated in the summertime of 2017, when the malware referred to as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing a few of the world’s largest companies – from drug producers to software program builders to transport firms. On the assault’s epicenter in Ukraine, ATMs froze. The railway and postal programs shut down. Hospitals went darkish. NotPetya unfold all over the world, inflicting an unprecedented 10 billion {dollars} in injury – the biggest, most devastating cyberattack the world had ever seen.

The hackers behind these assaults are shortly gaining a popularity as probably the most harmful group of cyberwarriors in historical past: a gaggle referred to as Sandworm. Working within the service of Russia’s army intelligence company, they characterize a persistent, extremely expert drive, one whose skills are matched by their willingness to launch broad, unrestrained assaults on probably the most essential infrastructure of their adversaries. They aim authorities and personal sector, army, and civilians alike.

A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, Sandworm considers the hazard this drive poses to our nationwide safety and stability. Because the Kremlin’s function in international authorities manipulation comes into better focus, Sandworm exposes the realities not simply of Russia’s world digital offensive, however of an period the place warfare ceases to be waged on the battlefield. It reveals how the strains between digital and bodily battle, between wartime and peacetime, have begun to blur – with world-shaking implications.