A Hacker Group Within Russiaβs Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks Latest Tech News from WIRED By: Andy Greenberg 12 February 2025 at 09:00 A team Microsoft calls BadPilot is acting as Sandworm's βinitial access operation,β the company says. And over the last year it's trained its sights on the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia.