Some of the files dated as far back as 2010, the same year Energetic Bear started hacking the American energy sector, but this group appeared distinct. Littered throughout attackers’ code were references to the 1965 science fiction epic Dune, a Frank Herbert science fiction novel set in a not-too-distant future in which the planet has been destroyed by nuclear war. The protagonists take refuge in the desert, where thousand-foot-long sandworms roam just beneath the surface. Hultquist called this new Russian attack group Sandworm.
