Newly discovered malware most lethal cyberweapon to date

[Lady's Human]

I read about this a few days ago. Scary stuff.

What I find so fascinating is the idea of 'cyber warfare'. The idea that terrorists, if they were able to develop a super-virus, could hack into systems that could cause power-plants to explode, trains to derail, etc, is both mind-blowing and mind-numbing.

Train derailing, while unlikely, would be possible.

Power plants exploding? There are too many manual overrides in the control loops to have a powerplant boiler explode.

As to the description of the program as a "lethal" threat, I don't think it's going to kill anyone through a data tap, which, essentially, is what it is.