A new indictment in the U.S. against a group of Russian citizens clearly illustrates, according to authorities, how a single malware operation can facilitate both criminal hacking and state-sponsored hacking.

Several Linksys and Cisco models are mentioned.

U.S. authorities have charged three Russian citizens and one Kazakh national with hacking and selling access to a botnet made up of vulnerable Internet-connected devices.

A group of researchers has discovered a set of vulnerabilities called AirBorne, which would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a device using third-party AirPlay to covertly execute their own code on that device.