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Poland faced a surge in cyberattacks in 2025, including a major assault on the energy sector
Poland faced about 270,000 cyberattacks in 2025, including a December energy sector sabotage affecting nearly 500,000 heat customers, linked to Russian state actors, officials said.
- On Tuesday, Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs PaweB Olszewski reported Poland faced 270,000 cyberattacks in 2025, including coordinated December sabotage hitting a power plant supplying nearly 500,000 customers.
- Attacks increased 2.5 times over the previous year, prompting Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government to bolster cyber defenses following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
- Anton Cherepanov, senior malware researcher at ESET, told The Associated Press that "the use of data-wiping malware and its deployment" in the Polish case align with Sandworm techniques.
- While electricity supply remained stable, the sabotage alarmed authorities, prompting Computer Emergency Response Team Poland to issue a public report in late January seeking cyber community input.
- FBI alerts from August 2025 identified the cybersecurity cluster Dragonfly as linked to the Federal Security Service, indicating broader Russian threats beyond Sandworm.
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Poland faced a surge in cyberattacks in 2025, including a major assault on the energy sector
Poland has said it faced a sharp surge in cyberattacks in 2025. A deputy digital affairs minister said Tuesday that Poland saw about 270,000 incidents over the last year.
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Poland experienced 21⁄2 times more cyberattacks in 2025 compared to the previous year, and the numbers are constantly increasing, one official said on Tuesday.
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