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The Vergecast

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

The Vergecast

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4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Verge editor-in-chief talks with Wired senior editor Andy Greenberg, author of Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. Greenberg's book is all about a group of hackers inside the Russian government called Sandworm, who were responsible for damaging cyber warfare attacks in various countries over the past few years. Andy and Nilay discuss the origins of Sandworm, the intricacies of their attacks, and how they escalated what we think of as "cyber war." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey everybody, it's Sam from the British House. On this week's interview episode, I talked to

1:16.2

Andy Greenberg, he's a senior writer at Wired. He just wrote a book called Sandworm, a new era of

1:20.4

cyber war, and the hunt for the Kremlin's most dangerous hackers. It is all about a hacking group

1:25.5

inside of the Russian government called Sandworm. They were responsible for some of those damaging

1:30.6

cyber warfare attacks over the past year. They were behind NAPPETCHIA, the hack that took out

1:35.5

the mayor's shipping line, they took out hospitals across the UK. Sandworm has totally escalated

1:41.2

what we think of as cyber war. Andy's book gets all into how they were discovered, how they were

1:46.2

flushed out the intricacies of these various hacks. The conversation was super interesting. The book

1:50.9

is like a thrill ride. If you're looking for something that isn't the virus, this is like a thriller.

1:56.0

I highly recommend it. It was really fun to talk to Andy Greenberg about this stuff. One thing I

1:59.7

want to note, we're all at home. So during this interview, you might hear some kids in the background.

2:04.3

I ask you to just be a little forgiving of that. We're all dealing with it. Andy was a great

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