Name: Sandworm
ISBN: 9780385544405

Sandworm

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.

What Hacker News says

JDPyApr 2026

I recently read: Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg

Very good book. Perhaps a follow up series will be needed with the new information coming out and of course what we have seen/learned since.

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aweiherNov 2024

"Sandworm" by Andy Greenberg gave me the chills.

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horeszkoAug 2024

Regardless of what should or should not be considered an act of war, cyber attacks in practice are in a de facto grey area. Something less than war, but something the US will sanction the leadership and units involved for.

Sandworm by Andy Greenberg is a good book to get the details on how "persistent threat actors" (i.e. state sponsered hackers) are handled by the US government (tldr the US government's calculus is that the grey area suits them for their own offensive cyber operations, and therefore there is a degree of tolerance for foreign PTAs).

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bollosJun 2023

As someone else already mentioned, there's a Darknet Diaries episode about it. There's also a Wired [0] piece about it from Andy Greenberg who also adopted it into his (in my opinion) excellent book Sandworm: about how the Kremlin slowly got more and more dangerous in terms of cyber warfare capabilities.

[0]. https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-2018-olympics-destr...

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q-baseOct 2022

Had to check my own website to remember which ones I really liked and was actually from my reading this year. But here goes:

How to build a car - Adrian Newey: I think even people with only engineering interest and not specifically cars, would find it interesting. What a joy it must be to work in a field where you have to be super creative and each week can measure your progress against other extremely clever teams and people.

Going the wrong way - Chris Donaldson: A bloke driving around the World on his Moto Guzzi LeMans. Probably only interesting if you are into bikes, but very weel written and enjoyable. I have read a lot of "around the World on motorcycle"-books and this is up there with the best.

Sandworm - Andy Greenberg: Probably the best fit for HN of the books I mentioned. Extremely interesting look at the hack that left Maersk paralized for several days. I read it shortly after Russia started invading Ukraine and it really educated me a lot about the situation leading up to the actual invasion.

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igouJun 2021

I feel like as somebody that works in tech, infosec media tends to feel too dense, or overdramatised (nothing against the BBC writers, I don't expect them to be super technical)

The best middleground I found was Sandworm by Andy Greenberg. Does anybody know of similar works?

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