Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers Audiobook (Free)
- Mark Bramhall
- 12 h 3 min
- Random House (Audio)
- 2019-11-05
Summary:
‘Sandworm is much greater than a true-life techno-thriller. It’s a tour through a realm that’s both unseen and critical towards the daily lives of every person alive in the 21st hundred years.’
-Los Angeles Moments
From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the very most devastating cyberattack ever sold as well as the desperate hunt to recognize and track the elite Russian agents behind it
In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Focusing on American power about Sandworm: A FRESH Era of Cyberwar as well as the Search for the Kremlin’s Most Harmful Hackers companies, NATO, and electrical grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew a lot more brazen. They culminated in the summertime of 2017, when the malware referred to as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing some of the world’s largest businesses-from drug manufacturers to software developers to shipping and delivery companies. At the attack’s epicenter in Ukraine, ATMs froze. The railway and postal systems shut down. Hospitals proceeded to go dark. NotPetya spread all over the world, inflicting an unparalleled ten billion dollars in damage-the largest, most harmful cyberattack the globe had ever noticed.
The hackers behind these attacks are quickly gaining a reputation as the utmost dangerous team of cyberwarriors in history: a group referred to as Sandworm. Working in the service of Russia’s armed forces intelligence company, they represent a persistent, highly skilled power, one whose abilities are matched up by their willingness to launch wide, unrestrained attacks for the most critical infrastructure of their adversaries. They focus on government and personal sector, military and civilians alike.
A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, Sandworm considers the risk this force poses to your national security and balance. As the Kremlin’s role in foreign authorities manipulation comes into greater concentrate, Sandworm exposes the realities not just of Russia’s global digital offensive, but of an era where warfare ceases to become waged for the battlefield. It reveals the way the lines between digital and physical issue, between wartime and peacetime, possess begun to blur-with world-shaking implications.
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