Poland Says Recent Attacks on Local Politicians Originated from Russia

The Polish government said that a recent wave of cyberattacks that have targeted the email accounts of local political figures originated from Russia. From a report: The attacks have targeted some of the most important Polish officials, ministers, and deputies from various political parties, said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland's deputy prime minister, citing sources from the Polish Internal Security Agency and the Military Counterintelligence Service. "The analysis of our services and the special services of our allies allows for a clear statement that the cyber attack was carried out from the territory of the Russian Federation," Kaczynski said in a press release today. "Its scale and range are wide," the Polish official said. The announcement today comes after Polish local news outlets reported last week hackers broke into the email inbox of Michal Dworczyk, head of the Chancellery of the Polish Prime Minister's. Throughout the course of the last week, the hackers leaked emails and documents from Dworczyk's inbox on a Telegram channel, according to Polish online news outlet Onet. Other documents were also leaked through the Facebook account of Dworczyk's wife.

Current Polish government is trustworthy as Trump.

[Lavandera]

So sorry, much more likely they messed it up themselves.

Especially that current government is pretty destructive for UE and nationalist so not good for Ukraine - so perfectly matches Kremlin agenda..

So sorry but no...

after ukraine poland is next then east germany

[Joe_Dragon]

after ukraine poland is next then east germany

Re: after ukraine poland is next then east germany

[guacamole]

East Germany is going to be a victim of cyber attack?

Re:after ukraine poland is next then east germany

[andydread]

>>Lithuania and Georgia joined the chat

Oh, this reminds me

[kenh]

Does anyone know if Biden remembered to include Elections and Political Organizations" on his "Please Don't Hack" list he handed Putin this week?

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[ph1ll]

Just because Putin is a tyrant doesn't meean you should believe Polish progaganda.

Poland is butt-hurt by the Nord Stream 2 [wikipedia.org] gas pipeline bypassing its territory and the subsequent lost income.

TL;DR; here's what happened. This is a big story in the German speaking world but is not huge in the Anglosphere:

1. - The cash-rich Germans want the hydrocarbon-rich Russians to supply them with gas.
2. - The plan was to build a pipeline under the Baltic sea that avoids the middle-men countries taking a cut.
3. - The US (interest

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[tinkerton]

Just because Putin is a tyrant doesn't mean you should believe Polish progaganda.

And yet it is guaranteed to work every time.

Re: Oh, this reminds me

[nbsr]

The pipeline has nothing to do with the current government od Poland, as it has been hotly debated for over a decade. The only party benefitting from it is Russia. Before they were forced to treat all countries along the pipeline equally, now they are free to play political games buy choosing which knob to turn. Germany and the EU assume a simple contract will address that, US can see beyond that and has objected against giving Russia a strategic advantage. Neither Germany nor Russia benefit from the pipeli

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[Zdzicho00]

Here is article in polish newspaper:
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,27... [wyborcza.pl]

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[tinkerton]

Please post a summary. The article is paywalled though putting the intro into google translate appears to confirm what you're saying.

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[BuckBundy]

Dude, as an (Internet) old timer I feel what you are saying, but may be you should stop inserting it in every /. conversion; it makes you sound like a nut and distracts from your message.

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[zenlessyank]

Don't feed the fucking troll. Damn man. What the fuck.

Easily solved

[peppepz]

Just create Putin-free local communities [wikipedia.org] and you're good to go.

So, at what point does the rest of the world

[bjdevil66]

...just cut all internet connections to Russia until they 1) admit it's a problem, and 2) stop it?

If Russia says, "Fine, we'll cut off natural gas and oil," etc. call their bluff and see how long people in Russia tolerate being back behind a new, digital Iron Curtain.

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[sound+vision]

Because it's not hard for them to move a laptop across the border and continue. Even if there was still an Iron Curtain it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal.

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[dalaketh]

Instead of reducing the number of cyber attacks, I think we will find that the attacks start "originating" from another country instead.

separate incompetence from hacking

[kiviQr]

password reusing combined with social engineering at state level official is plain incompetence (if not users then security service fault).

It is a bigger problem than we may think

[Max_W]

Can a government of Colombia stop cartels' activity effectively? Can President Putin stop ransom hackers?

In a poor country where a policemen or a judge earns couple of hundreds per month it is easier said than done.

These criminal groups get literally millions. They have sophisticated equipment to erase a hard disk in a second with the electromagnetic impulse via a remote control (while it is backed up somewhere else anyway). They have facade businesses like hotels, art galleries, etc. Also professiona

Poland is absolutely paranoid about Russia

[qaz123]

Just read their press. They also feared that USA-Russia relationships become better after Biden's meeting with Putin. Because they are afraid of the US letting them down, abandoning them to the Russians. So I think it's a false flag operation by Poles to worsen US-Russia relationships. Just after Biden's meeting with Putin