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

"It's a classic, albeit more dangerous than ever," says Andy Greenberg, author of the New York Times bestseller and Foreign Policy article "Silk Road: The True Story of How Drug Money Went Online to Buy Guns, Cocaine, and Spy Gear."

The young hackers were unmasked after a yearlong investigation, and their tools were so advanced that they had already been used against political targets in several countries. They had managed to steal the passwords of more than 100 Russian government officials and members of parliament, as well as the military email inboxes of 20,000 soldiers. They had also penetrated systems belonging to oil giant Rosneft, Russia's largest publicly traded company.

The story of how one small team of Kaspersky Lab researchers managed to identify and track down a secret Russian hacking group that they call the "Sandworm," which has been wreaking havoc on Western computers since at least 2007.

The novel opens with an email from a very public figure's "blackmailing" someone in the White House. The sender has proof that the person is involved in shady dealings and, with fear, they offer to release the information if the US government will pay them a million dollars. A computer science professor at Georgia Tech named Jake Silver is contacted by his former student, Martin Proctor, who offers to sell him the incriminating emails for $500,000. Proctor is a hacker who had previously worked on behalf of a company hired by Russia to hack into various American companies and steal their data for financial gain. After learning about what Proctor was trying to do and that his previous employer might be connected to Russian intelligence, Silver pays him $

The first book in a series on how the Kremlin has used cyberwar against Europe, US, Canada and other countries.

In 2014, long-form narrative journalist and bestselling author Andy Greenberg published a book that would forever change the way we think about cyberwar and the fight against state sponsored hackers. His book, "Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers," chronicles years of open source intelligence gathering on cyberattacks by Western intelligence agencies in Russia, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran and across Europe.