Poland
Poland’s nuclear research centre targeted by cyberattack
Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) says hackers targeted its IT infrastructure, but the attack was detected and blocked before causing any impact. In a statement this week, the organization announced that its security systems and internal procedures, designed to detect threats early, prevented the compromise and allowed its IT staff to quickly secure […]
Poland arrests suspect linked to Phobos ransomware operation
Polish police have detained a 47-year-old man suspected of ties to the Phobos ransomware group and seized computers and mobile phones containing stolen credentials, credit card numbers, and server access data. Officers from Poland’s Central Bureau of Cybercrime Control (CBZC) arrested the suspect in the Małopolska region in a joint operation involving units from Katowice […]
Cyberattack on Polish energy grid impacted around 30 facilities
The coordinated attack on Poland’s power grid in late December targeted multiple distributed energy resource (DER) sites across the country, including combined heat and power (CHP) facilities and wind and solar dispatch systems. Although the attacker compromised operational technology (OT) systems damaging “key equipment beyond repair,” they failed to disrupt power, totalling 1.2 GW or 5% of […]
Sandworm hackers linked to failed wiper attack on Poland’s energy systems
A cyberattack targeting Poland’s power grid in late December 2025 has been linked to the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm, which attempted to deploy a new destructive data-wiping malware dubbed DynoWiper during the attack.. Sandworm (also tracked as UAC-0113, APT44, and Seashell Blizzard) is a Russian nation-state hacking group that has been active since 2009. […]
Poland arrests Ukrainians utilizing ‘advanced’ hacking equipment
The police in Poland arrested three Ukrainian nationals for allegedly attempting to damage IT systems in the country using hacking equipment and for obtaining “computer data of particular importance to national defense.” The three men, aged between 39 and 43, could not explain why they were carrying the electronic devices. They now face charges of fraud, computer […]
Police takes down six DDoS-for-hire services, arrests admins
Polish authorities have detained four suspects linked to six DDoS-for-hire platforms, believed to have facilitated thousands of attacks targeting schools, government services, businesses, and gaming platforms worldwide since 2022. Such platforms are often marketed as legitimate testing tools on the dark web and hacking forums, but are mainly used to disrupt online services, servers, and websites by […]
Polish Space Agency offline as it recovers from cyberattack
The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) has been offline since it disconnected its systems from the Internet over the weekend to contain a breach of its IT infrastructure. After detecting the attack, the agency reported the incident to relevant authorities and launched an investigation to assess its impact. “There has been a cybersecurity incident at POLSA. The […]