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, paralyzing some of the world's largest businesses--from drug manufacturers to software developers to shipping companies. ATMs froze. The railway and postal systems shut down. Hospitals went dark. The malware known as 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- a group known as Sandworm, working in the service of Russia's military intelligence agency and targeting government and the 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. The line between digital and physical conflict, between wartime and peacetime, has begun to blur--with world-shaking implications.
"With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer,Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the futurewhile 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.
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, paralyzing some of the world's largest businesses--from drug manufacturers to software developers to shipping companies. ATMs froze. The railway and postal systems shut down. Hospitals went dark. The malware known as 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- a group known as Sandworm, working in the service of Russia's military intelligence agency and targeting government and the 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. The line between digital and physical conflict, between wartime and peacetime, has begun to blur--with world-shaking implications.
"With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer,Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the futurewhile 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.
From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the desperate hunt to identify and track an elite team of Russian agents bent on digital sabotage.
ANDY GREENBERG is an award-winning senior writer for Wired magazine, where he covers security, privacy, information freedom, and hacker culture. He is the author of the 2012 book This Machine Kills Secrets.Sandworm and excerpts from it have won a Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting, a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, two Deadline Club Awards from the New York Society of Professional Journalists, and the Cornelius Ryan Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, documentary filmmaker Malika Zouhali-Worrall.
Winner of the Cornelius Ryan Citation for Excellence from the
Overseas Press Club of America
"Sandworm is a sobering examination of an underreported story:
The menace Russian hackers pose to the critical infrastructure of
the West. 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, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
of Gulag and Red Famine
"An important front-line view of the changing cyberthreats that are
shaping our world, their creators, and the professionals who try to
protect us.”
—Nature
“As Russia has attacked, Greenberg has not been far behind,
reporting on these incursions in Wired while searching for their
perpetrators. Like the best true-crime writing, his narrative is
both perversely entertaining and terrifying.”
—New York Review of Books
"Sandworm is much more than a true-life techno-thriller. It's a
tour through a realm that is both invisible and critical to the
daily lives of every person alive in the 21st century."
—Los Angeles Times
“Immensely readable…A hair-raising, cautionary tale about the
burgeoning, post-Stuxnet world of state-sponsored hackers…Greenberg
lays out in chilling detail how future wars will be waged in
cyberspace and makes the case that we have done little, as of yet,
to prevent it.”
—Washington Post
"[A] chilling account of a Kremlin-led cyber attack, a new front in
global conflict."
—Financial Times
“Shocking…The book reads like a novel.”
—Washington Independent Review of Books
"Sandworm offers both a ripping narrative of a hack that broke the
world and a worrying glimpse at cyberwar's rapidly evolving
future."
—Wired
"The most detailed account yet of Russia's most destructive
government-backed hackers."
—Axios
“The must-read guide to state-sponsored hacking.”
—Business Insider
"Andy Greenberg’s Sandworm has achieved what I thought was no
longer possible: it scares me. Sandworm is the story of the Russian
GRU hacking team that has evolved in a few short years into the
most methodical, persistent, and destructive intelligence agency
cyber warriors. After reading Sandworm you will not doubt those
superlatives."
—Forbes
“Chilling.”
—USA Today
"A beautifully written deep-dive into a group of Russian hackers
blamed for the most disruptive cyberattack in history, NotPetya,
This incredibly detailed investigative book leaves no stone
unturned, unravelling the work of a highly secretive group that
caused billions of dollars of damage."
—TechCrunch
"[A] fascinating historical document that renders the often bland
world of cybersecurity as a human tale that warrants our deepest
attention."
—Fast Company
“A terrifying and infuriating look at a future in which cyberwar
hawks and cyberwar deniers join forces to literally threaten our
ability to continue civilization. Sandworm shows how, in our
leaders’ focus on maintaining digital weapons to attack our
enemies, they've left our own critical infrastructure
defenseless.”
—Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother
and Radicalized
"Sandworm hits that sweet spot of being both informative and
entertaining as hell. In a journey that hopscotches from war-torn
Ukraine to shadowy chatrooms to the halls of the UN, Greenberg
takes readers on the hunt for the network of Russian hackers behind
the most damaging cyberattack to occur so far. It is well worth
your read."
—P.W. Singer, author of Ghost Fleet and LikeWar
“The good news about Andy Greenberg's Sandworm is that no one has
ever dived so deeply into a major hack to illuminate the evolving
crisis of a never-ending cyberwar. The bad news is when you
finish this gripping narrative, you won't be sleeping as soundly as
you did before.”
—Steven Levy, New York Times bestselling author of In the Plex and
Hackers
“Lucid and compelling, Sandworm shows us how high-tech warfare is
waged today in Eastern Europe: battlefields of computer viruses,
software vulnerabilities, and faked digital
fingerprints. Where foreign hackers remotely black out cities
and feed false election results to television networks. Where
laptops become weapons and a word processor becomes a tool to
invade a nation’s critical infrastructure. The first half of
Greenberg's meticulously researched book leaves us wondering:
How long before it happens here? The second provides the chilling
answer."
—Clifford Stoll, New York Times bestselling author of The Cuckoo's
Egg
“An in-depth investigation of what the Russian military’s best
cyber unit has already done to disrupt corporations, penetrate
utilities, and prepare for cyberwar. Sandworm is a sword of
Damocles over the US economy that any US president has to take into
account when deciding on whether and how to counter the
Kremlin.”
—Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism coordinator,
author of The Fifth Domain and Cyber War
“A taut inquiry…Greenberg is an adroit investigator and gifted
metaphorist. His lucid, dynamic exposé is a must-read for those
worried about the vulnerabilities of the digital world.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A credible, breathless account…[Greenberg] effectively captures
the disturbing nature of this new global threat.”
—Kirkus
"Told with the fast-paced style of a thriller, this book is highly
recommended for all fans of international intrigue and
cyberwarfare. An exceptional account."
—Library Journal (starred review)
"Loaded with original reportage, Greenberg's urgent and clarifying
book will inform and worry everyone concerned about national
andcyber security...Readers will revel in the details Greenberg
provides."
—Booklist
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