Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg

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

by Andy Greenberg

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Wired's Andy Greenberg on Sandworm — the GRU Unit 74455 hacking group — responsible for the Ukraine power-grid attacks, the NotPetya wiper that caused $10B in global damage, and operations against the Olympics and Western infrastructure.

Core ideas
  • NotPetya is treated as the decisive case study: a Russian wiper malware aimed at Ukraine that escaped containment and disabled Maersk, Merck, FedEx, and dozens of other multinationals — the first true case of cyberwar civilian collateral damage at scale.
  • The attribution work is the book's craft: how a small community of researchers across vendors and governments built the case that Sandworm was specifically GRU 74455, with named individuals, despite Russian denial.
  • The deterrence problem is the book's unsolved puzzle: Russia faced essentially no consequence for NotPetya, which means the precedent is set for state-actor wiper attacks with civilian-infrastructure collateral.
Published2019
Pages368
ISBN9780385544412
ReadAug 2024
Ukraine

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