The number of cyber attacks in Poland is increasing. Recently A victim of hacker activities was the Ministry of abroad Affairs infirmary in Kraków. individual broke into the system, which is the “heart” of the work of the facility. A fewer days earlier, the service had detected unauthorised access to the information infrastructure of the Polish Space Agency. As Interia said, Krzysztof Gawkowski, attempts of hacking attacks on the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, the Chancellery of the President, individual ministries have already been reported. Now the presidential elections in Poland can be a delicate moment. The Ministry of Digitalism is so implementing the Election Parasol programme.
Krzysztof Gawkowski on cyberattacks and Polish cyberattacks
According to the Minister of Digitalization, the biggest player in cyberspace is now Russia, which wants to destabilise the situation in Poland. Hence the expanding threat of incidents likely to be affected by various institutions. According to Krzysztof Gawkowski, presidential elections may be threatened. “We know that a peculiar cell has been created in a Russian GRU interview, which has the task of destabilising the Polish elections,” says Minister in a conversation with Interia. “We are ready for this, they know we are ready. We made this data publically so that they would know that we know,” he adds.
On the another hand, in Poland, groups were formed cooperating with Russian intelligence, which are expected to stimulate negative emotions on the net for remuneration. Krzysztof Gawkowski calms down, however, that the services monitor their actions, and "Polish cyber shield is 1 of the best in the world".
The vast majority of attacks are countered preventively. The head of the Ministry of Digitalism besides stresses that the authorities are implementing the "election parasol" programme. It includes monitoring of misinformation, training for election committees, journalists and election organisers, additional protection of critical applications.
“We are checking that systems are not delicate to the entry of adversaries, groups of hackers who want to destabilise the work of the National Election Office,” says Gawkowski Interii. “The cyberspace safety bar is very high,” he stresses.
