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Sandworm

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

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Sandworm

By: Andy Greenberg
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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 "With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of Russian and Ukrainian history." —Anne Applebaum, bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy

The true story of the most devastating act of cyberwarfare in history and the desperate hunt to identify and track the elite Russian agents behind it: "[A] chilling account of a Kremlin-led cyberattack, a new front in global conflict" (Financial 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. Espionage Military & War Politics & Government Russian & Soviet Security & Encryption Social Sciences True Crime World
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Exciting frightening well researched and throughly engrossing account of the internets ability to be hijacked manipulated and tossed aside by malignant actors
Can’t recommend enough

Impressions of potential worldwide dystopia

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This is a great story, well narrated and actual events.
If you not into computers or cyber security you will very quickly get lost in the details of the story. Otherwise this is such great insight into the minds of the people who keep us safe online.

This is for the Geek in you

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This is a truly fascinating listen. So many cybersecurity events take place which the majority of the public never get to hear about, yet they are happening all around us.

Fascinating account of events

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A clearly narrated, step by step, detective like walk through of most of the history of nation state sponsored hacking and its likely implications for the future.

Well narrated cyber security who dunnit.

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This audio book is a must listen if you are in to IT Security. I do highly recommend it.

A must listen if you are into IT Security.

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