This article from WIRED’s Andy Greenberg is a must-read for anyone remotely interested in technology or how what someone does to a computer system can have massive financial and geopolitical implications.
Andy Greenberg of WIRED magazine is an excellent tech writer with the ability to translate complex technical and geopolitical cyberattacks into fascinating, insightful, and understandable prose. His focus lately has been tracing the history of some of the worst cyberattacks of the last decade… back to the same Russian state-sponsored hackers. His recent article in WIRED, "The Story of Sandworm, the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers," is a must-read for anyone remotely interested in technology or how what someone does to a computer system can have massive financial and geopolitical implications.
The Story of Sandworm, the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
An excerpt:
Over the last half decade, the world has witnessed a disturbing escalation in disruptive cyberattacks. In 2015 and 2016, hackers snuffed out the lights for hundreds of thousands of civilians in the first power outages ever triggered by digital sabotage. Then came the most expensive cyberattack in history, NotPetya, which inflicted more than $10 billion in global damage in 2017. Finally, the 2018 Olympics became the target of the most deceptive cyberattack ever seen, masked in layers of false flags.
In fact, those unprecedented events aren't merely the recent history of cyberwarfare’s arms race. They're all linked back to a single, highly dangerous group of hackers: Sandworm.
Read the rest of the story on WIRED here.
Greenberg has also complied this information — and much more — into a new book, Sandworm, which I just got for Christmas and look forward to reading.