b"Russian cyber operations in Southeastern Europe. The challenge of containing the cyber phases of a hybrid war. Russian and Chinese cyber activity in Latin America. Greenwashing influence operations. Rick Howard looks at risk probabilities. Dinah Davis from Arctic Wolf looks at ransomware payment myths. And an Iranian threat actor exploits Log4j vulnerabilities against Israeli targets.\\n\\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:\\nhttps://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/166\\n\\nSelected reading.\\nRussia blamed for wave of hacker attacks in Southeast Europe (BNE)\\nMontenegro declares it is in 'hybrid war' with Russia after massive cyber attack (Metro)\\nMontenegro reports massive Russian cyberattack against govt (ABC News)\\nMontenegro Reports Massive Russian Cyberattack Against Govt (AP via SecurityWeek)\\nMontenegro's state infrastructure hit by cyber attack -officials (Reuters)\\xa0\\nCyber Element in the Russia-Ukraine War & its Global Implications (Modern Diplomacy)\\nSwiss secret service worried about Russian cyber operations (SWI swissinfo.ch)\\nChina and Russia Step Up Cyber Presence in Latin America (Di\\xe1logo Am\\xe9ricas)\\nDominican Republic refuses to pay ransom after attack on agrarian institute (The Record by Recorded Future)\\xa0\\nChina-Linked Bots Attacking Rare Earths Producer \\u2018Every Day\\u2019 (Bloomberg)\\xa0\\nIranian Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Log4j 2 Bugs to Target Israeli Organizations (The Hacker News)\\nMERCURY leveraging Log4j 2 vulnerabilities in unpatched systems to target Israeli organizations (Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center)\\nIran exploiting Log4j 2 weakness to attack Israel, says Microsoft (Israel Defense)"