state-sponsored-hacking

Moonlight Maze represents one of the earliest known instances of government-backed cyber espionage targeting sensitive military and research networks.

1 chapter across 1 book

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers (2019)Andy Greenberg

PART II

This chapter recounts two significant flashbacks illustrating the evolution and potential of cyberwarfare. The first, the Aurora experiment in 2007, demonstrates how a small amount of malicious code can physically destroy a large diesel generator by manipulating protective relays in the power grid. The second flashback traces the origins of state-sponsored hacking back to the 1980s with the Moonlight Maze incident, highlighting the early sophistication and persistence of cyber espionage efforts.