The journalism on this is awful. The Ukrainian statements are ridiculous and should have been challenged by VICE rather than sensationalized. A state actor isn

The journalism on this is awful. The Ukrainian statements are ridiculous and should have been challenged by VICE rather than sensationalized. A state actor isn't going to run the kill command on 500,000 routers to disrupt a soccer match. The intention of the compromise is for surveillance. Not nearly as sophisticated as the NSA capabilities - nearly every router in the world (besides the small percentage not produced in the United States) are compromised by the NSA. It's telling how weak the Russian cyber security program is that they need to compromise routers with an active exploit to get some small surveillance capability. It also sounds like the C&C network didn't get a lot of investment, as its design was easy to subvert.