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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

Andy Greenberg

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From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the most devastating cyberattack in history and the desperate hunt to identify and track the elite Russian agents behind it.

"Much more than a true-life techno-thriller ... a tour through a realm that is both invisible and critical to the daily lives of every person alive in the 21st century."
--Los Angeles From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the most devastating cyberattack in history and the desperate hunt to identify and track the elite Russian agents behind it.

"Much more than a true-life techno-thriller ... a tour through a realm that is both invisible and critical to the daily lives of every person alive in the 21st century."
--Los Angeles Times

In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen. They culminated in the summer of 2017, when the malware known as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing some of the world's largest businesses--from drug manufacturers to software developers to shipping companies. At the attack's epicenter in Ukraine, ATMs froze. The railway and postal systems shut down. Hospitals went dark. NotPetya spread around the world, inflicting an unprecedented ten billion dollars in damage--the largest, most destructive cyberattack the world had ever seen.

The hackers behind these attacks are quickly gaining a reputation as the most dangerous team of cyberwarriors in history: a group known as Sandworm. Working in the service of Russia's military intelligence agency, they represent a persistent, highly skilled force, one whose talents are matched by their willingness to launch broad, unrestrained attacks on the most critical infrastructure of their adversaries. They target government and private sector, military and civilians alike.

A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, Sandworm considers the danger this force poses to our national security and stability. 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 where warfare ceases to be waged on the battlefield. It reveals how the lines between digital and physical conflict, between wartime and peacetime, have begun to blur--with world-shaking implications. ...more

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Aug 13, 2020 Max rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: current-events

Sandworm is the name given to a Russian military hacking group by a U. S. based cybersecurity firm. Sandworm has deployed sophisticated malware that has taken down and taken over computer systems, networks and attached infrastructure across the globe. Their viruses can lie in wait undetected until a targeted time. Some are tailored to take control of industrial control systems. These are the computer interfaces that turn digital instructions into physical ones for automated machines, which use p ...more

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Nov 16, 2019 Onceinabluemoon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I got this book for my husband, I had no intentions of reading it, but we were on a road trip and I put on the audio. I love books that expose me to new things that I turn out to be open to, this cyber world was shocking to me, I had no idea that such warfare was underway for such a long protracted time and the devastating consequences involved. There is no question in my mind our elections were interfered with upon after hearing the myriad of experiences in this dark world. To be honest, I foun ...more

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Nov 13, 2019 Ryan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: war-on-terror, computer-security, favorites

One of the best books about modern infosecurity threats -- a detailed investigation into the activities of GRU in attacking infrastructure around the world (primarily in Ukraine), their motivations, and where the threat is evolving.

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Nov 24, 2019 Jessica Scott rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

If I could give this book more than 5 stars, I would. Absolutely outstanding reporting e,bedded in historical context about Russia’s hacking capabilities, what it’s doing in Ukraine and how it impacts all of us.

It should be required reading for all cyber security, military, industry, and government officials. Everyone should read this book.

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Jan 12, 2020 Bouke rated it liked it · review of another edition

Just listen to the Darknet diaries podcast episode NotPetya, it's better than the book. ...more

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Dec 04, 2020 Alex Givant rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, read-again, cybersecurity, technology, best-of-2020

Excellent book about cyber-security and Russian hacker. If you think it's not related to you, think again! Among their targets were big ports, hospitals in different countries, bank machines in Ukraine, etc. Nobody could be safe with such level of technology spread that we depend more and more each day. USA and Israel did attacks on Iran nuclear program using StuxNet (for excellent account of that check Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon). But appar ...more

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Nov 10, 2019 Val rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book was much more, and much better, than I expected, and I had high hopes when I started it. It tells the story of the elite Russian cyber attack team “Sandworm” as a central feature, but the book focuses even more on the first part of the title, “A New Era of Cyberwar,” giving a detailed but not overly-technical account of Cyberwar and the most devastating attacks made since network connected computing began. I have some training and experience in this field but I learned new things about This book was much more, and much better, than I expected, and I had high hopes when I started it. It tells the story of the elite Russian cyber attack team “Sandworm” as a central feature, but the book focuses even more on the first part of the title, “A New Era of Cyberwar,” giving a detailed but not overly-technical account of Cyberwar and the most devastating attacks made since network connected computing began. I have some training and experience in this field but I learned new things about old attacks, and new things about more recent attacks. Once the genie was out of the bottle (destroying centrifuges in Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant through computer code commands), it was only a matter of time before other experts around the world learned how to reverse-engineer the breakthrough and spread the know-how far and wide. Once such tools were used on another nation and observable in the wild, cyberwar was ready to cause physical world mayhem in other machines on other continents.

To-date, this is the best book I’ve read about cyberwar and the nations that wage it, with Russia being front-and-center as the most aggressive, damaging, and dangerous. Its teams have sledgehammered pillars of the international economy, such as power grids, transportation systems, and shipping yards, leaving government and corporate officials around the world scrambling to rebuild entire computer infrastructures or go bankrupt. Such teams crashed the Korea Olympics, caused chaos on the systems cleaning up the Chernobyl accident site, shut off the power for millions of people in Ukraine, and of course, caused the American people to lose confidence in our national election voter information and ballot systems. The author uses some stunning examples or real-world effects to make the point that cyber attacks have very real physical world consequences. The attack on the shipping giant Maersk, with its ubiquitous containers and cranes in nearly every major port on the planet, will give any reader a jolt of reality as to the economic crises a few lines of code can ignite.

This was a terrific read from start to finish, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about the havoc state-sponsored hacker teams can wreak on the digital and physical worlds we operate in daily. To call them “hackers” is a misnomer from a past we no longer live in. The sophisticated cyber attacks such teams have carried out are not merely a bunch of hackers testing to see what they can penetrate, testing the limits of their skills or the security of their targets. Teams such as “Sandworm” are the cyber version of military Special Forces teams like SEALS or Green Berets. They never stop training, they are relentless, and they can be lethal when the mission requires it.

This book will be eye-opening for those who still believe the USA is better-protected or more immune from crippling cyber attacks than the unfortunate nations teams like Sandworm have targeted repeatedly. America has always had an isolationist streak, believing itself safe from enemies because it is protected east and west by large oceans so we see our enemies coming to attack our homeland. However, in the cyber world, no such isolation or protection exists. One quote stood out to me, that perfectly states the threat we face with nearly everything we do taking place on the Internet in some way: “Every barbarian is already at every gate.”

In warfare, the goal is to win, and some governments are willing to be more ruthless and provocative than others, clearly viewIng dominance in the cyber domain as a critical part of winning future wars. With the tools and proven ability to knock out power grids, crash trade and financial systems, take company servers hostage, and make physical machines stop working or break down or work too well for safety, there is almost no limit to what major nation-states can do to each other in an actual all-out war, and civilians who rely on electricity and water and computers to live normal ife will be the collateral damage. Just ask the Ukrainian cyber expert who could not use his credit card, his ATM card, buy groceries, heat his house, pay his bills online, or do anything we all take for granted, because entire regions of that country have been repeatedly hit by cyber warfare attacks from Russia. Russia’s actions in Crimea here preceded by cyber attacks that shut down pro-Ukraine government communications, websites, and established a misinformation campaign. Ukraine experts paint a bleak future picture for us all if an all-out cyberwar erupts with Russia at some point. Some attacks are meant to show capability, as a deterrent to similar attacks on oneself, but the pace and severity of cyberwar attacks are rising, as are the chances for retaliatory strikes and escalation from capable victims.

If you can shut down shipping container cargo manifests and cripple loading cranes, you can keep your enemy from receiving food, tools, parts, supplies, the very lifeblood of a nation’s ability to wage war. If it cannot feed its population, or maintain its machines, or communicate with the populace, war morale plummets. Do it in winter when losing the power grid means also losing heating systems for homes and businesses, so pipes, and people, freeze. When we start to think about how many networked devices we have running things in our homes, we can move forward to imagining what happens when those devices stop working. SmartHomes are amazing, and are an open invitation for cyberwar to be the “barbarian already at every gate.”

A fascinating 5-star book that is enlightening, entertaining, frightening, and unquestionably necessary for waking us all up to what lies ahead. You will never think of a “glitch” on your favorite devices the same again.

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Feb 12, 2020 Marks54 rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

While reading “Sandworm”, One is tempted to recall the dialog of Slim Pickens in Kubrick’s movie Doctor Strangelove - “Nuclear Combat, toe to toe with the Russkies!” Or when he rides a bomb down to the end of the world.

Andy Greenberg’s new book is about cyber war and focuses on the Russian teams, linked to the GRU organization, that were behind the cyber attacks on Ukraine and other countries, including the US since 2016 (and before). The title comes with a reference to Frank Herbert’s Dune stor ...more

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Dec 07, 2019 Mark Maddrey rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction

It is a rare feat to write a non-fiction book that manages to be both factually informative and absolutely compelling to read. This book is one that does. It could not be more timely or important given the current need to mis-direct attention with spurious charges of meddling BY Ukrainian actors when the truth is ENTIRELY the opposite. They have been and will continue to be the targets of Russian interference. And, of course, so are we. I love the way Mr. Greenberg includes enough of the technic ...more

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Nov 30, 2019 Renee rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: history, work

Fantastic read. This was like a history of hacking for me, and I was in awe of all the events I had never heard of because the news is so focused on the president’s latest tweets. I feel I have a foundational understanding finally of the politics of Ukraine and Russia and the major codenames for hackers and malware. It is written well and keeps your attention. I started taking notes halfway through because I know I will come back to them as this landscape develops. This is another book I really ...more

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Dec 02, 2019 Kressel Housman marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Too technical for me, but a very important topic. I hope I'll get back to it someday. It seems to me that if they want to reach a non-tech crowd like me, the Dune series discovery angle could be very interesting. ...more

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Dec 03, 2019 Wayne rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: computer-security

Well researched, well written look into some of the most high profile cyber attacks in the last 10 years. Most of these attacks have an underlying thread connecting them. Russia. They've been honing their cyberwar tactics in their wars with Georgia, Estonia, and Ukraine. Their attacks have been getting more brazen and reckless since the international community seems unwilling to draw a red line and hold Russia to account, even after NotPetya caused more than $10 billion dollars in damage to comp ...more

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Feb 13, 2020 Snorre Lothar von Gohren Edwin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audible

It was an interesting story on a specific hacker group with good stories around for context. It gives you an insight to Russia, Ukraine and all their troubles as well.

I got this tip from: https://darknetdiaries.com/ and the stories revolving NotPetya in that podcast, together with this book, gave alot of insight! ...more

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Jun 11, 2020 Jen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Cyber attacks seem to only exist in movies and fiction. However, our world is witnessing an escalating series of cyber attacks to civilian life. This book gave us the fascinating true stories of Sandworms, the world most reputable and dangerous cyber warriors from Russia.

A malware, NotPetya, triggered the first-ever blackout to Ukraine, disrupting the electric grid and then spreading to some of the largest companies in the world in 2017. Then, broad and unrestrained attacks on the infrastructur ...more

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Jan 29, 2020 Ben rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: history, science

My expectations for this book were fairly low; Wired isn't a place I look to for quality writing. But I was pleasantly surprised. The story is quite interesting, and, not having followed big hacker news stories too closely, I learned a lot. Greenberg ties it all together nicely (if perhaps with more certainty in his attribution than he should have). Greenberg talks about Ukraine almost as much as computer hacking. Most of the perspective is fairly one-sided; he only interviews a few people and t My expectations for this book were fairly low; Wired isn't a place I look to for quality writing. But I was pleasantly surprised. The story is quite interesting, and, not having followed big hacker news stories too closely, I learned a lot. Greenberg ties it all together nicely (if perhaps with more certainty in his attribution than he should have). Greenberg talks about Ukraine almost as much as computer hacking. Most of the perspective is fairly one-sided; he only interviews a few people and tends to present their statements uncritically. But it is still a scary story, and reasonably convincing.

> The next morning, the election commission was hit with a third and final attack, this time a punishing wave of junk traffic designed to keep its servers off-line and prevent them from confirming the legitimate results. … By the time I visited Kiev in early 2017, practically every strata of Ukrainian society was being hit in successive waves of coordinated hacker sabotage: media, energy, transportation, finance, government, and military. … the same group that had just snuffed out the lights for nearly a quarter of a million Ukrainians had only a year before infected the computers of American electric utilities with the very same malware.

> NATO members were unwilling to remotely consider an Article 5 response to the Russian provocations [to Estonia]. This was, after all, a mere attack on the internet, not a life-threatening act of physical warfare. Ilves says he asked his diplomats to instead inquire about Article 4, which merely convenes NATO leaders for a "consultation" when a member's security is threatened. The liaisons quickly brought back an answer: Even that milder step proved a nonstarter.

> Russia's gains from its brief war with Georgia, however, were tangible. It had consolidated pro-Russian separatist control of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, granting Russia a permanent foothold on roughly 20 percent of Georgia's territory. Just as in Ukraine in 2014, Russia hadn't sought to conquer or occupy its smaller neighbor, but instead to lock it into a "frozen conflict," a permanent state of low-level war on its own soil. … No country had ever before so openly combined hacker disruption tactics with traditional warfare. The Russians had sought to dominate their enemy in every domain of war: land, sea, air, and now the internet. Georgia was the first crude experiment in a new flavor of hybrid warfare that bridged the digital and the physical.

> No one in the security community could remember seeing a piece of malware that used four zero days in a single attack. Stuxnet, as Microsoft eventually dubbed the malware based on file names in its code, was easily the most sophisticated cyberattack ever seen in the wild. … Stuxnet's only flaw was that it was too effective. … When the NSA chose to let its Tailored Access Operations hackers abuse those software flaws, it prioritized military offense over civilian defense.

> No U.S. agency even named Russia as the offender, despite the numerous clues available to any researcher who looked. The Obama administration was virtually silent. America and the world had lost a once-in-history chance, Lee argues, to definitively establish a set of norms to protect civilians in a new age of cyberwar. "It was a missed opportunity," he says. "If you say you won't allow something and then it happens and there's crickets, you're effectively condoning it."

> But the code was also highly modular. The protocols could just as easily be swapped out for others—including those used in the United States. "I salute the author of this malware, because it will work anywhere," as Krotofil would later put it. "The beauty of this is that you can launch it in any country, in any substation." The notion that Sandworm was using Ukraine to test out techniques that it might someday repeat in western Europe or the United States was now more than an abstract theory: It had been borne out in the actual mechanics of the tool the researchers had uncovered.

> Instead of an abstract fear that U.S. cyberweapons would inspire adversaries to develop their own, America's hacking arsenal had fallen, suddenly and directly, into enemy hands. … Maersk's desperate administrators finally found one lone surviving domain controller in a remote office—in Ghana. At some point before NotPetya struck, a blackout had knocked the Ghanaian machine off-line, and the computer remained disconnected from the network. It thus contained the singular known copy of the company's domain controller data left untouched by the malware … In total, the result was more than $10 billion in damages, according to a White House assessment

> The result of all these combined myopias was the closest thing the earth has yet seen to the long-predicted, infrastructure-crippling cyberwar doomsday. To an extent never seen before or—as of this writing—since, a single surprise cyberattack took a chunk out of the foundation of civilization, from pharmaceuticals to shipping to food. Distributed across the world, and in a far more concentrated sense for Ukraine itself, NotPetya was the "electronic Pearl Harbor" that John Hamre had first warned of in 1997. … The "perfc" file that Amit Serper had identified as NotPetya's vaccine appeared on computers that hadn’t actually been affected by the worm, close to 10 percent of machines in some cases. The victim companies' administrators told him that they hadn't installed the vaccine. But those computers had, nonetheless, been spared from encryption. Yasinsky believed that the "vaccine" had, in fact, served a different purpose in the hands of the hackers: It was designed to preserve their access.

> American utility operators, more than Ukrainians, have learned to manage the generation and flow of power primarily through their computers and automated systems. Without those modern tools, they're blinded. Ukrainian operators, by contrast, are far more accustomed to those tools' failures, and thus ready to fall back on an analog option. ...more

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Nov 28, 2020 Tony Miller rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Andy Greenberg found a great middle ground between technical and untechnical explanations in Sandworm. You could tell that he both understood the details and how to present them without putting the layperson to sleep. He impressively connects the many dots with thorough research and interviews without making you feel like a conspiracy theorist.

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Mar 15, 2020 TJ Wilson rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book kind of blew my mind in terms of the world that I did not know. A new frontier is out there, and no one is sure if we are handling it in the right way.

I found the writing a bit awkward at times, but the reporting is very solid. So much groundwork here.

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Oct 18, 2020 Ahmad hosseini rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: web, general

Financial damage: more than $10 billion
Human casualties: Unknown
Impacted countries: France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Weapon: NotPetya #malware
Manufacturer: Sandworm #hacking group within (the GRU Russian military intelligence organization)
In the past, the failure of power plants, water treatment plants, refineries, etc. by #hackers occurred only in movies, but the 2016 #cyber_attack on Ukrainian infrastructure brought these attacks to the real world.
The bo ...more

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Apr 22, 2020 Ahsan Khan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Cyberwar is now.

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Nov 20, 2019 Filip Olšovský rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Although the beginning is often unreasonably epic and the ending is just 20-30 pages too long, all the stuff in between is just brilliant. Probably the best book on this topic and a clear example of how reporting should look like.

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Dec 14, 2019 Jonathan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Sandworm tells the story of the Kremlin hackers behind the worst computer crimes ever, from the *NotPetya* worm (which took many different corporations offline, including Maersk and many US hospitals) to the South Korean Olympics to our own 2016 elections. Greenberg traces it all back to *Sandworm*, one of the original worms.

Ukraine is used as a test bed for Russian cyber aggression and the lessons we should learn (although I don't think we have) if (when?) they attack us. It is pretty crazy how Sandworm tells the story of the Kremlin hackers behind the worst computer crimes ever, from the *NotPetya* worm (which took many different corporations offline, including Maersk and many US hospitals) to the South Korean Olympics to our own 2016 elections. Greenberg traces it all back to *Sandworm*, one of the original worms.

Ukraine is used as a test bed for Russian cyber aggression and the lessons we should learn (although I don't think we have) if (when?) they attack us. It is pretty crazy how "head in the sand" we are about these attacks. I think the thing that stuck most with me was the idea of "distance". While people in power say "Oh, Ukraine is so far away we don't have to put our foot down", in reality, when it comes to the Internet, we are all neighbors and there is no "distance" that protects us like the Atlantic and Pacific have protected us in the past.

As a software developer, the stories told here have a real chilling effect. No matter how small or obscure your software might be, it can be used as a vector for real destruction. The developers of a small accounting software package in Ukraine might say that, while they were of course worried about security, why would anyone target us? Turns out, they were a perfect vector for the disastrous worldwide epidemic of "NotPetya" - once you are in a networked computer with complete control, you can quickly spread throughout the interconnected world.

But in some ways this book reminded me of "Blowout" - a description of a litany of failures and of a lack of imagination that I feel powerless to do anything about and that the book itself is merely a catalog of failures and won't lead to any kind of change. But this one is worse. It makes me think about bunkers and ways to survive an apocalyptic loss of electricity, the lifeblood of modern society. There should be limits put on what kinds of attacks are "okay", but no - we think we are better than the "others", so we don't want to limit our attacks. Ugh. Good luck with that.
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Jan 31, 2020 Scott Martin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

(Audiobook) As we become more and more dependent on computers and all other aspects of cyber, the dangers from hacking groups and cyber warriors will only increase. Additionally, future wars and conflicts will be fought in the cyber realm as much as on land, sea, air and space. This work, written by a writer who focuses on cyber/computer issues, covers the exploits and actions of one the more infamous group of hackers. Originating in Russia, Sandworm evolved over time from crime to a geo-politic ...more

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Aug 22, 2020 Prasanna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I had been looking forward to reading the book. I had followed the news cycle about the various attacks and corresponding talks, podcasts, etc and thought I was going to find a narrative form of Sandworm leading up to NotPetya, but this book was much deeper than that, and linked a lot of these attacks that I had only seen in isolation. This book does a great job of painting a cohesive story from the various researchers and professionals on the frontlines of the cyberwar brought at their doorstep ...more

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Jul 05, 2020 Rick Howard rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: a-audible, continuous-low-level-cyber-conflict

I recommend “Sandworm" to the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of fame. It completes a triad of recent must-read Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame books that not only tells the history of the relatively new development of continuous low level cyber conflict between nation states from about 2010 until present but also attempts to explain the current thinking of some of the key power cyber players like Russia, China, the United States, Iran, and North Korea. David Sanger’s “Perfect Weapon” covers the histo ...more

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Jul 03, 2019 Csimplot Simplot rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Excellent book!!!

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Jun 09, 2020 Emily rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

HooOOLLy shit, this book was GOOD. It’s like a Bourne-meets-Matrix-meets-Muller, blow-by-hacker-blow account of a few decades worth of cyber warfare and espionage. Captivating. Horrifying. [insert ‘watching a trainwreck’ comment here] It’s also, coincidentally, a great follow-up to reading Edward Snowden’s “Permanent Record,” which I finished the day before starting “Sandworm.”

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Nov 02, 2020 Wilson rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: national-strategy, nonfiction, asymmetric-warfare, decision-making, information-warfare, intelligence, military-strategy

This was a good book that seems to have filled a good deal of knowledge gaps that the news only periodically touches on.

If one can suspend the author’s light jabs at the Trump administration (and for the most part be dismissive of “red line” failures of previous administrations), then one can see the diligence at pulling the thread on where clues led the author.

I particularly enjoyed how the author stuck with the data forensic evidence of the evolution of Sandworm throughout the years, and also ...more

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Apr 04, 2020 Janusfac3 rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, computer-science

A history book describing the most dangerous Russian hackers to date.
They utilized zero day vulnerabilities of Windows/Linux/Unix systems and programmed viruses such as ransomware and wanna cry. Penetrated Ukrainian power grids, manipulated votes of French and US elections, brought down Pyeong Chang Olympic networks. The reasons for those actions were unknown.
We have no idea how dangerous the world is out there. Our lives would descend into chaos if it were not for the cyber security heroes who ...more

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Oct 02, 2020 Rob rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2020, computers, nonfiction, author-male

Executive Summary: 3.5 stars. A bit slow in places, but a pretty fascinating and scary read.

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I've had a subscription to wired.com for the last year or so, and I tend to click on/read most of Mr. Greenberg's articles. He tends to focus on cybersecurity and computer crime.

This book focuses on the increasingly scarier world of state-sponsored hackers and cyber warfare. I've read a few other books on this now and I found it pretty well researched and written. I didn't know much of the ...more

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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

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