Imagine that happening here.
And it will.
Now imagine EBT cards and McDonald’s restaurants not working for a few days.
In winter.
Meanwhile Crimean citizens now in the dark voted to reject a contract to get electricity from UKraine because it required them to identify as part of Ukraine, Crimeans preferring to wait out extra months of darkness and cold until alternate electrical supplies can be constructed from Russia
This threat seems a little overblown. From the description the target is PCs running SCADA software and specifically ASEM Ubiquity. Which they call “a platform commonly used in [ICS]” - yet this is a small (125 employees) Italian company that is dwarfed by the real industrial control players, including Siemens, ABB, Emerson, etc. Stuxnet worked because it had been very specifically crafted to install rogue code on Siemens PLCs which are widely used, but while Ukraine may be dependent on ASEM software, the rest of the world is not.
Ping!