Best podcast episodes on the NotPetya attack
On June 27, 2017, NotPetya spread from Ukrainian tax accounting software, M.E.Doc, whose development environment attackers had backdoored, and encrypted files on networks worldwide with no working way to restore them. In February 2018 the White House attributed the attack to the Russian military and called it the most destructive and costly cyberattack in history.
Sources: cisa.gov, trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov
6 episodes from 5 shows. Dates and lengths are from each show's own feed.
- 01
· 57 min · Beginner
The best single story of the attack: what got hit, how it spread, and who was responsible.
- 02
· 33 min · Beginner
Narrative history of the outbreak and the Ukrainian context it came out of.
- 03
· 25 min · Beginner
How researcher Amit Serper found a vaccine against the malware within an hour, from his parents' living room.
- 04
Episode 90 - Saving The World From NotPetya
· 54 min · Practitioner
Amit Serper in his own words, at long-form interview length, on stopping NotPetya's spread.
- 05
Andy Greenberg from WIRED on his book "Sandworm." [Special Editions]
· 29 min · Practitioner
Andy Greenberg on his book Sandworm, the reporting behind the GRU unit blamed for NotPetya.
- 06
Following DOJ indictment, a look back on NotPetya and Olympic Destroyer research.
· 33 min · Expert
Revisits the NotPetya research after the 2020 DOJ indictment of six GRU officers.