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

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The sandworms have been called "iconic" to the franchise, [11] [27] [59] and "synonymous with the Dune series", having appeared in nearly every novel, on several book covers, and in all of the television, film, and video game adaptations. [32] Hoai-Tran Bui of /Film noted that they are an "essential to the narrative of the story", [32] and Lindsey Romain of Nerdist deemed the creatures "extremely important to the plot and the very fiber of the Dune universe." [11] Bella Ross of Screen Rant called the sandworms "the embodiment of the perils of colonization." [6]

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Although Robinson knew that the malware was self-contained and therefore had to include all the encryption keys necessary to unscramble itself and run its code, the key to each layer of that scrambling could only be found after decoding the layer on top of it. Greenberg sketches the evolution of a wholly new discipline in the surprisingly lively real-life police procedural [that] deftly teases out technical detail without slowing the narrative." Daniels, James (January 12, 2014). "Toys We Miss: The Long Forgotten Figures From Frank Herbert's Dune". Nerd Bastards. Archived from the original on January 27, 2014 . Retrieved October 30, 2019. But the code was also highly modular. The protocols could just as easily be swapped out for others—including those used in the United States. "I salute the author of this malware, because it will work anywhere," as Krotofil would later put it. "The beauty of this is that you can launch it in any country, in any substation." The notion that Sandworm was using Ukraine to test out techniques that it might someday repeat in western Europe or the United States was now more than an abstract theory: It had been borne out in the actual mechanics of the tool the researchers had uncovered.Dune 2000 (PC) User Manual". Manual Machine. Archived from the original on August 15, 2023 . Retrieved May 24, 2020. This is what cyberwar looks like: an invisible force capable of striking out from an unknown origin to sabotage, on a massive scale, the technologies that underpin civilization. The indictment accuses Andrienko, Detistov, Frolov, and Pliskin specifically of developing different components of the NotPetya malware. It goes so far as to state that Andrienko and Pliskin "celebrated" after the malware was deployed.

Ukraine has always been caught between warring powers, and we’ve always ignored those conflicts in the West, treated [them] as someone else’s regional conflict,” Greenberg told CyberScoop. “This is a story about how in cyberwar, that kind of geography breaks down and it’s a war that’s played by different rules … We can no longer ignore these ‘far away’ conflicts.” Evans, Clay (March 14, 2008). "Review: Exploring Frank Herbert's 'Duniverse' ". Archived from the original on March 19, 2008 . Retrieved March 19, 2008– via DailyCamera.com.a b Harmetz, Aljean (September 4, 1983). "The World of Dune Is Filmed in Mexico". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 1, 2021 . Retrieved March 20, 2019. Williams, Ashley R. (August 6, 2023). "Researcher Names recently Discovered 500-million-year-old Sea Worm after Dune Monster". CNN. Archived from the original on August 8, 2023 . Retrieved August 9, 2023.

The 2000 Sci Fi Channel miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, and the 2003 sequel miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, employed computer-generated visual effects to create sandworms onscreen, [33] under the guidance of special effects supervisor Ernest Farino. [34] [35] By anyone's standards, Sandworms could grow to an enormous size. Dr. Yueh cited that specimens "up to 450 meters long" were spotted by observers in the deep desert. To make a comparison, the largest animal of Earth was believed to be a Blue whale measuring in at only 33 meters, or about 7% of a large sandworm's length. Kasavin, Greg (May 17, 2006). " Emperor: Battle for Dune Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on January 18, 2018 . Retrieved May 24, 2020.The main component of the sandworm's diet was sand, and other inorganic and dry components of the Arrakis crust. It is also believed they sifted the sand-plankton for nourishment.