WARSAW, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A large Polish city could have had its water supply cut off on Wednesday as a result of a cyberattack, a deputy prime minister said after the intrusion was foiled.
In an interview with news portal Onet on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, who is also digital affairs minister, did not specify who was behind the attack or which city was targeted.
Poland has said that its role as a hub for aid to Ukraine makes it a target for Russian cyberattacks and acts of sabotage. Gawkowski has described Poland in the past as the "main target" for Russia among NATO countries.
Gawkowski told Onet that the cyberattack could have meant there would be no water in one of Poland's big cities.
"At the last moment we managed to see to it that when the attack began, our services had found out about it and we shut everything down. We managed to prevent the attack."
He said Poland manages to thwart 99% of cyberattacks.
Gawkowski last year that Poland would spend over 3 billion zlotys ($800 million) to boost cybersecurity after the state news agency PAP was hit by what authorities said was likely to have been a Russian cyberattack.
The digital affairs ministry did not immediately respond to an email requesting further details.
On Wednesday Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has warned that Russia is trying to drive a wedge between Warsaw and Kyiv, said that a young Ukrainian man had been detained for acts of sabotage on behalf of foreign intelligence services, including writing graffiti insulting Poles.
PAP reported on Thursday that a 17-year-old Ukrainian man detained, among other things, for desecrating a monument to Poles killed by Ukrainian nationalists in World War Two has been charged with participating in an organised criminal group aimed at committing crimes against Poland.
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 flooding them with traffic in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and causing outages for real users.
The six DDoS services, named Cfxapi, Cfxsecurity, neostress, jetstress, quickdown, and zapcut, have been taken down in a coordinated law enforcement action involving authorities from Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States.
"In the latest blow to the criminal market for distributed denial of service (DDoS)-for-hire services, Polish authorities have arrested four individuals who allegedly ran a network of platforms used to launch thousands of cyberattacks worldwide," Europol said on Wednesday.
"The suspects are believed to be behind six separate stresser/booter services that enabled paying customers to flood websites and servers with malicious traffic — knocking them offline for as little as EUR 10."
Cisco Talos discovered an ongoing malicious campaign operated by a financially motivated threat actor targeting users, predominantly in Poland and Germany.
The former head of Poland’s internal security agency Piotr Pogonowski was forced to appear in front of a parliamentary committee investigating the alleged abuse of Pegasus spyware in the country.
(6 Months later CZAT 7 Server is offline or changed to another ip address , this post was written 6 months ago, published today 9/2/2024)
I’m a big fan of trains, i like them, but never tough that someday i would take over train traction power substation located in Poland from my home in Costa Rica.
I’m not a train expert/engineer and i had no idea how the train management works , I’m a cyber security professional doing research in the internet about OT Industrial equipment exposed potentially vulnerable or misconfigured.
Everything explained here is just what i learned reading official documentation from the Elester-pkp website . https://elester-pkp.com.pl/
In May, hackers published fake news on the website of the Polish Press Agency claiming the country’s authorities had announced a partial mobilization of 200,000 men to be sent to fight in a war in Ukraine.
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Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar says an investigation into Pegasus use by current and former government officials has expanded to hundreds more people than initially reported.
The signees, which already included about a dozen other nations, agree to establish “robust guardrails and procedures" around spyware, while preventing the export of technology that will be used for malicious cyber activity.
Poland’s new prime minister says he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used the powerful Pegasus spyware illegally and targeted a “very long” list of hacking victims.
The sabotage of more than 20 trains in Poland by apparent supporters of Russia was carried out with a simple “radio-stop” command anyone could broadcast with $30 in equipment.
olish intelligence services are investigating a hacking attack on the country's railways, Polish media say.
Hackers broke into railway frequencies to disrupt traffic in the north-west of the country overnight, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported on Saturday.
The signals were interspersed with recording of Russia's national anthem and a speech by President Vladimir Putin, the report says.
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