Summary of Andy Greenberg's Sandworm

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Get the Summary of Andy Greenberg's Sandworm in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9798350063585

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Summary of Andy Greenberg’s Sandworm

Contents

Overview

Sandworm

A Path to Sabotage?

Another Invasion of Ukraine

Massive Blackout

A History of State-Sponsored Hacking

A Pandora’s Box of Digital Threats

The Return of Sandworm

Recipe for Disaster

The EternalBlue Nightmare

One of the Worst

The Chaos at Maersk

A Crack in the Identity Silence

Bad Rabbit and the Olympic Destroyer

A Trail to Russia

We Are All Ukraine

About the Author

Overview

The automation of the modern world has made our lives easier, but it has also introduced new threats to the stability of our society. In Sandworm (2019), technology journalist Andy Greenberg takes an in-depth look at the rise of state-sponsored hacking and how it endangers national security. Greenberg uses the story of the Russian hacking group Sandworm, which has been linked to several high-profile cyberattacks, to open our eyes to a new battle that reaches into our homes, governments, and infrastructure.

Sandworm

In 2014, iSight Partners, a small intelligence firm in Chantilly, Virginia, received an important email from a colleague in its Ukraine satellite operation. John Hultquist, the head of iSight’s cyber espionage unit, opened the email to find that the colleague had discovered a zero-day vulnerability in a Microsoft PowerPoint file. A zero-day is a security flaw in software that the software’s creators don’t know about. A powerful zero-day can be used to get into every system running that software anywhere in the world where the victim is connected to the internet.

Engineers at iSight discovered that the malware could extricate itself from the PowerPoint file and take complete control of even the newest, fully patched versions of Windows. This allowed the malicious malware to