It's preperation to explain away the upcomming death wave. When the garbage truck drivers die, garbage will pile up. When the sewage plant workers die, you will have to shower with bottled water. When the guys who maintain the electric grid and power production die, there will be more and more blackouts. They will blame all this on russian cyberattacks. Because people randomly dying in large numbers is actually noticeable. Only a complete and utter moron believes it wouldn't affect your personal day to day life. You'd had to be emberassingly stupid to believe the only thing that changes will be that you read about it online. So yeah, they will blame russian cyberattacks for this VERY noticable, undeniable disruption.