Length12h 9m
About this audiobook
The war has already begun. You just can’t see it.
Right now, nation-states are quietly burrowing into power grids. Criminal syndicates are holding hospitals hostage. Intelligence agencies are mapping the hidden arteries of global infrastructure — waiting. And artificial intelligence has just given every one of them a weapon they’ve never had before.
Breaking Code is the definitive account of the invisible conflict reshaping modern civilization. Drawing on meticulously documented incidents from 2020 through 2026, this gripping work of narrative nonfiction takes you inside the Salt Typhoon telecom hack — called “the worst in our nation’s history — by far” — the ransomware attack that paralyzed 94% of US hospitals overnight, and the chilling discovery of a near-perfect backdoor hidden inside the software running most of the world’s servers.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length12 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Acknowledgments
3Chapter 1: The War You Didn’t Know Was Being Fought
4Chapter 2: Code as a Weapon: A Brief History of Cyberwar
5Chapter 3: The Architecture of Vulnerability
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6Chapter 4: The Ransomware Epidemic
7Chapter 5: Inside the Kill Chain
8Chapter 6: The Dragon’s Digital Army: China’s Cyber Ambitions
9Chapter 7: Sleeping in the Walls: Volt Typhoon and the Infrastructure Trap
10Chapter 8: The Bear’s Claws: Russia’s Cyber Warfare Machine
11Chapter 9: Digital Frontline: Ukraine and the World’s First Full-Spectrum Cyber War
12Chapter 10: The Hermit Kingdom’s Hackers: North Korea’s Billion-Dollar Cyber Theft Empire
13Chapter 11: The Market for Secrets: Zero-Days, Spyware, and the Surveillance Industrial Complex
14Chapter 12: The Human Factor: Social Engineering, Scattered Spider, and Why the Weakest Link Is Always Flesh
15Chapter 13: The Ransomware Cartels: Criminal Ecosystems in the Digital Age
16Chapter 14: The Algorithm Goes to War: How AI Is Reshaping Cyberattack
17Chapter 15: The Defenders’ Algorithm: AI in the Fight for Cybersecurity
18Chapter 16: The Deepfake Battlefield: Synthetic Media and Cognitive Warfare
19Chapter 17: Spyware for Sale: The Industry That Watches Everyone
20Chapter 18: Supply Chain Shadows: When the Software Itself Is the Weapon
21Chapter 19: The Policy Response: Governments Scramble to Catch Up
22Chapter 20: The Quantum Threat: When Encryption Dies
23Chapter 21: Satellites, Cables, and the Physical Internet
24Chapter 22: The Financial System Under Siege
25Chapter 23: The Human Cost: When Cyberattacks Kill
26Chapter 24: Breaking and Remaking: What Comes Next
27Character Guide
28References & Bibliography
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