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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."
- December 08, 2025
- 01:31 PM
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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.
- May 07, 2025
- 07:23 AM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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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.
- March 04, 2025
- 10:32 AM
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Poland says Russian military hackers target its govt networks
Poland says a state-backed threat group linked to Russia's military intelligence service (GRU) has been targeting Polish government institutions throughout the week.
- May 09, 2024
- 07:14 PM
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Turla hackers backdoor NGOs with new TinyTurla-NG malware
Security researchers have identified and analyzed new malware they call TinyTurla-NG and TurlaPower-NG used by the Russian hacker group Turla to maintain access to a target's network and to steal sensitive data.
- February 15, 2024
- 09:49 AM
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Police cracks down on DDoS-for-hire service active since 2013
Polish police officers part of the country's Central Cybercrime Bureau detained two suspects believed to have been involved in the operation of a long-running DDoS-for-hire service (aka booter or stresser) active since at least 2013.
- June 16, 2023
- 03:27 PM
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Poland warns of attacks by Russia-linked Ghostwriter hacking group
The Polish government is warning of a spike in cyberattacks from Russia-linked hackers, including the state-sponsored hacking group known as GhostWriter.
- January 03, 2023
- 01:26 PM
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Russian military hackers linked to ransomware attacks in Ukraine
A series of attacks targeting transportation and logistics organizations in Ukraine and Poland with Prestige ransomware since October have been linked to an elite Russian military cyberespionage group.
- November 10, 2022
- 02:47 PM
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Microsoft: New Prestige ransomware targets orgs in Ukraine, Poland
Microsoft says new Prestige ransomware is being used to target transportation and logistics organizations in Ukraine and Poland in ongoing attacks.
- October 14, 2022
- 03:49 PM
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Multiple Ukrainian government websites hacked and defaced
At least 15 websites belonging to various Ukrainian public institutions were compromised, defaced, and subsequently taken offline.
- January 14, 2022
- 11:11 AM
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Poland blames Russia for breach, theft of Polish officials' emails
Poland's deputy prime minister Jarosław Kaczyński says last week's breach of multiple Polish officials' private email accounts was carried out from servers within the Russian Federation.
- June 18, 2021
- 01:40 PM
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Nozelesn Ransomware Reportedly Using Spam to Target Poland
A distribution campaign for a new ransomware called Nozelesn is currently underway that is targeting Poland. This campaign started July 2nd and we already have reports from victims in our forums and numerous cases have been spotted on ID Ransomware.
- July 02, 2018
- 02:21 PM
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BackSwap Banking Trojan Uses Never-Before-Seen Techniques
Security researchers have discovered a new banking trojan named BackSwap that uses never-before-seen techniques to facilitate the theft of online funds.
- May 25, 2018
- 04:02 PM
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Author of Polski, Vortex, and Flotera Ransomware Families Arrested in Poland
Polish law enforcement announced on Friday the arrest of Tomasz T., a well-known cyber-criminal believed to be the author of the Polski, Vortex, and Flotera ransomware strains.
- March 17, 2018
- 04:51 PM
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Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology
A Polish academic is accusing Google of trying to patent technology he invented and that he purposely released into the public domain so companies like Google couldn't trap it inside restrictive licenses.
- September 11, 2017
- 02:45 PM
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The Polski-Vortex-Flotera Ransomware Connection
A malware author that loves Polish hip hop music appears to be behind the Polski, Vortex, and Flotera (spelled Ŧl๏tєгค) ransomware families that have made a small number of victims between January and March this year
- March 21, 2017
- 10:50 AM
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Polish Authorities Confirm Hack of Bitcurex Bitcoin Exchange, Launch Investigation
Polish authorities in the town of Lodz have launched an official investigation into the closure of Bitcurex, a Bitcoin trading platform that launched in 2012, and closed earlier this year.
- March 18, 2017
- 09:28 AM
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Polish Banks Infected with Malware Hosted on Their Own Government's Site
Several Polish banks said they suffered malware infections after their employees visited the site of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF), which had been previously infected to host a malicious JavaScript file.
- February 06, 2017
- 02:30 PM
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