FromWiredsenior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the desperate hunt to identify and track an elite team of Russian agents bent on digital sabotage
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, including the first-ever blackouts triggered by hackers. The attacks culminated in the summer of 2017, when the malware known as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing some of the world's largest companies--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 devastating 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: Sandworm. Working in the service of Russia's military intelligence agency, they represent a persistent, highly skilled, state-sponsored 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,Sandwormconsiders the danger this force poses to our national stability and security. As the Kremlin's role in meddling in the 2016 election, manipulating foreign governments, and sparking chaos comes into greater focus,Sandwormexposes 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 line between digital and physical conflict, between wartime and peacetime, have begun to blur--with world-shaking implications.
Author(s): Andy Greenberg
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 371
Also by Andy Greenberg......Page 2
Title Page......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 9
Prologue......Page 12
Part I: Emergence......Page 14
1. The Zero Day......Page 15
2. BlackEnergy......Page 19
3. Arrakis02......Page 23
4. Force Multiplier......Page 29
5. StarLightMedia......Page 38
6. Holodomor to Chernobyl......Page 46
7. Maidan to Donbas......Page 53
8. Blackout......Page 61
9. The Delegation......Page 69
Part II: Origins......Page 77
10. Flashback: Aurora......Page 78
11. Flashback: Moonlight Maze......Page 84
12. Flashback: Estonia......Page 93
13. Flashback: Georgia......Page 102
14. Flashback: Stuxnet......Page 110
Part III: Evolution......Page 120
15. Warnings......Page 121
16. Fancy Bear......Page 128
17. FSociety......Page 136
18. Poligon......Page 142
19. Industroyer/Crash Override......Page 151
Part IV: Apotheosis......Page 161
20. Maersk......Page 162
21. Shadow Brokers......Page 165
22. EternalBlue......Page 174
23. Mimikatz......Page 183
24. NotPetya......Page 189
25. National Disaster......Page 195
26. Breakdown......Page 201
27. The Cost......Page 207
28. Aftermath......Page 216
29. Distance......Page 224
Part V: Identity......Page 230
30. GRU......Page 231
31. Defectors......Page 237
32. Informatsionnoye Protivoborstvo......Page 246
33. The Penalty......Page 254
34. Bad Rabbit, Olympic Destroyer......Page 258
35. False Flags......Page 265
36. 74455......Page 271
37. The Tower......Page 277
38. Russia......Page 282
39. The Elephant and the Insurgent......Page 288
Part VI: Lessons......Page 295
40. Geneva......Page 296
41. Black Start......Page 306
42. Resilience......Page 315
Epilogue......Page 321
Appendix: Sandworm’s Connection to French Election Hacking......Page 325
Acknowledgments......Page 327
Source Notes......Page 330
Bibliography......Page 369
About the Author......Page 370
