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

My Next book is Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers Kindle Edition which is also linked within our resources page on EMHS.

While I just baught the book, I was reading the sample of the book and its quite interesting to learn that Sandworm was actually developed and used well before we covered it in the tech press.

I say we loosely, because I’m not a full journalist, although I do write about what interests me and what I think about what I read.

From Amazon’s page

“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.

It is 370 print pages.

It is written in English.

This is a 2019 book published by Anchor.

It is also available in paper format which is the link on EMHS’s page.

Feel free to check out the book, and make it a great day! This is going to get very interesting. I can’t wait to read more.

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