****"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.
