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Sead Fadilpašić

INSANE: Russian sandworm cybercrime group linked to multiple attacks | Rare Historical Photos

A group of 7 hackers, 6 slightly blurred in the background and one in the foreground, all wearing black with hoods pulled up over their heads. You cannot see their faces. The hacker in the foreground sits with an open laptop in front of them. The background, behind the hackers, is a Chinese flag.

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), the company’s cybersecurity arm that focuses mostly on state-sponsored, espionage-oriented threat actors, has elevated Sandworm, an infamous Russian group, to Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) level, assigning it a new codename - APT44.

In a recent analysis of the group, TAG said APT44 has been a “flexible instrument of power capable of servicing Russia's wide ranging national interests”, and said it was pivotal in Russia’s war against Ukraine. 

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