On the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a group called Sandworm, deployed a piece of malware, targeting the computers running Ukraine’s power grid. Had Russia’s attack worked as planned, it would have left 2 million people in the dark. Dina Temple-Raston from the podcast, “Click Here,” reports on Russia’s government-backed hacking group, which has had mixed results.
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