Notes from the cyber phases of the hybrid war against Ukraine. Conti retires its brand, and LockBit 2.0 is now tops in ransomware. Extortion skips the encryption. Cyber exercise in the financial sector.

Lithuania sustains a major DDoS attack. Lessons from NotPetya. Conti's brand appears to have gone into hiding. Online extortion now tends to skip the ransomware proper. Josh Ray from Accenture on how social engineering is evolving for underground threat actors. Rick Howard looks at Chaos Engineering. US financial institutions conduct a coordinated cybersecurity exercise.

For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:
https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/11/122

Selected reading.
Russia's Killnet hacker group says it attacked Lithuania (Reuters) …

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