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Sandworm : a new era of cyberwar and the hunt for the Kremlin's most dangerous hackers / Andy Greenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, [2019]Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 348 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780385544405
  • 0385544405
Other title:
  • Sand worm
Subject(s):
Contents:
Part I: Emergence. The zero day -- BlackEnergy -- Arrakis 02 -- Force multiplier -- StarLight Media -- Holodomor to Chernobyl -- Maidan to Donbas -- Blackout -- The delegation -- Part II: Origins. Flashback: Aurora -- Flashback: Moonlight maze -- Flashback: Estonia -- Flashback: Georgia -- Flashback: Stuxnet -- Part III: Evolution: Warnings. Fancy Bear -- FSociety -- Poligon -- Industroyer/Crash Override -- Part IV: Apotheosis: Maersk -- Shadow brokers -- EternalBlue -- Mimikatz -- NotPetya -- National disaster -- Breakdown -- The cost -- Aftermath -- Distance -- Part V: Identity. GRU -- Defectors -- Informatsionnoye Protivoborstvo -- The penalty -- Bad Rabbit, Olympic Destroyer -- False Flags -- 74455 -- The Tower -- Russia -- The Elephant and the Insurgent -- Part VI: Lessons. Geneva -- Black start -- Resilience -- Sandworm's Connection to French election hacking.
Summary: "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. 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 companies--from drug manufacturing to software to shipping. 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, Sandworm considers 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, 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 line between digital and physical conflict, between wartime and peacetime, have begun to blur--with world-shaking implications"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Emergence. The zero day -- BlackEnergy -- Arrakis 02 -- Force multiplier -- StarLight Media -- Holodomor to Chernobyl -- Maidan to Donbas -- Blackout -- The delegation -- Part II: Origins. Flashback: Aurora -- Flashback: Moonlight maze -- Flashback: Estonia -- Flashback: Georgia -- Flashback: Stuxnet -- Part III: Evolution: Warnings. Fancy Bear -- FSociety -- Poligon -- Industroyer/Crash Override -- Part IV: Apotheosis: Maersk -- Shadow brokers -- EternalBlue -- Mimikatz -- NotPetya -- National disaster -- Breakdown -- The cost -- Aftermath -- Distance -- Part V: Identity. GRU -- Defectors -- Informatsionnoye Protivoborstvo -- The penalty -- Bad Rabbit, Olympic Destroyer -- False Flags -- 74455 -- The Tower -- Russia -- The Elephant and the Insurgent -- Part VI: Lessons. Geneva -- Black start -- Resilience -- Sandworm's Connection to French election hacking.

"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. 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 companies--from drug manufacturing to software to shipping. 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, Sandworm considers 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, 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 line between digital and physical conflict, between wartime and peacetime, have begun to blur--with world-shaking implications"-- Provided by publisher.

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