Download Audiobook Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg in English

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From Wired senior author Andy Greenberg comes the true story of essentially the most devastating cyberattack in historical past and the determined hunt to determine and observe the elite Russian brokers behind it.”Rather more than a true-life techno-thriller…a tour by a realm that’s each invisible and demanding to the every day lives of each particular person alive within the twenty first century.” (Los Angeles Occasions)In 2014, the world witnessed the beginning of a mysterious collection of cyberattacks. Focusing on American utility corporations, NATO, and electrical grids in Japanese Europe, the strikes grew ever extra brazen. They culminated in the summertime of 2017, when the malware referred to as NotPetya was unleashed, penetrating, disrupting, and paralyzing a number of the world’s largest companies – from drug producers to software program builders to delivery corporations. On the assault’s epicenter in Ukraine, ATMs froze. The railway and postal techniques shut down. Hospitals went darkish. NotPetya unfold all over the world, inflicting an unprecedented 10 billion {dollars} in harm – the most important, most devastating cyberattack the world had ever seen.The hackers behind these assaults are shortly gaining a fame as essentially the most harmful crew of cyberwarriors in historical past: a bunch referred to as Sandworm. Working within the service of Russia’s navy intelligence company, they signify a persistent, extremely expert drive, one whose skills are matched by their willingness to launch broad, unrestrained assaults on essentially the most crucial infrastructure of their adversaries. They aim authorities and personal sector, navy, and civilians alike.A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, Sandworm considers the hazard this drive poses to our nationwide safety and stability. Because the Kremlin’s position in overseas authorities manipulation comes into larger focus, Sandworm exposes the realities not simply of Russia’s international digital offensive, however of an period the place warfare ceases to be waged on the battlefield. It reveals how the strains between digital and bodily battle, between wartime and peacetime, have begun to blur – with world-shaking implications.