Reddit mentions of Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

Similar killings happened in Iran when Stuxnet and its variants were wrecking the enrichment centrifuges.

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon.by Kim Zetter is a great whodunnit exploring the failures of the centrifuges.

Just finished a book on stuxnet and I find it absolutely fascinating. Haven't watched the documentary yet, but if anyone is looking for more information, check out this book. It's written so anyone can understand it without any prior knowledge of computer viruses or nuclear power. I can't recommend it enough.

Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter is a good read (amazon)

attacking infrastructure not connected to the internet is absolutely possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

if books are more your style:

https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp/0770436196

Last time an unprecedented worldwide hack occurred the person involved wrote a book about it. Verifiable conformation isn't much to ask for here, especially when America's made up stuff before.

Two great pieces on Operation Olympic Games AKA Stuxnet

Book: Countdown to Zero Day

Documentary: Zero Days

I don't think you will find a book on a global financial crisis as devastating as Mr.Robot from a hack, but you can find books such as "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon" that deal with real world scenarios that can turn cyber weapons into real world problems portrayed in Mr.Robot
https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp/0770436196

The guy that wrote that blog post has a good book called Spam Nation that talks about his deep dive investigation into Russian cybercrime gangs. It's incredibly good, and he's one of the best reporters on the cyber underground.

I'd also look for the coverage of Stuxnet. There's a really good documentary about it called zer0days, and since you specifically asked about books you could do Countdown to Zero though I haven't read it so I don't know how good it is. If you haven't heard about Stuxnet it's a fascinating story about just how advanced US cyber warfare capability is.

https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp/0770436196

Read that book if you want a real life James Bond type story. It details the work done to bypass airgapped machines and sabotage uranium centrifuges. Seriously good book!

I do agree they could and have tampered with shipping on things in the past (Countdown to Zero Day ); however, for the NSA (as an example) to target ordinary citizens seems a bit out of focus for what the NSA would want to use resources on. I'm not saying they would not (please excuse the double negative), it seems like a lot of effort for next to zero gain. They would want to target individuals of high interest for sure and have shown in the past to be very specific on how they target them. Again the above mentioned book details how specific the Stuxnet virus was to avoid it from activating on every logic controller or found. I feel the same would be true for certain agency's to target select individuals not an entire group.
Also, if this bothers you then how can you trust VPN encryption at this point? Who can say they have or have not broken that? How can you trust they haven't broken HTTPS encryption? We can "what if" this to death.
For myself, I'm really looking forward to this phone for the lack of a company tracking me. No more Google listening to everything I say within ear shot of my phone. No more Google tracking everywhere I've been all day Watch this.

The NSA cares about national security, you downloading that new album of MP3s with Bit torrent is a matter for other agencies. Why waste the resources?

https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp/0770436196

I highly recommend this book, you guys will love this one!

https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp/0770436196 has been recommended to me by multiple people. I have yet to read it myself though

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/confirmed-us-israel-created-stuxnet-lost-control-of-it/

This book is an amazing read and gives a hugely comprehensive picture of everything: https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/dp/0770436196

https://www.wired.com/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwar/

Wow. I just got done reading Countdown to Zero Day (arguable a major source document for that movie) and I never got the sense that anyone involved wore a cape. Additionally the book goes into details about several 'versions' of stux that seemingly were developed by several different teams. Quite a good book if you are interested and my local library had it.