Poland says it has foiled a cyber attack against the city’s water supply system
A cyber attack against the water supply system and pipelines of a Polish city was thwarted, announced Thursday the vice-president of the Polish Council of Ministers, Krzysztof Gawkowski, according to which a digital war between Poland and Russia was already ” in progress “.
“At the last moment, when the attack started, our services [de sécurité] were informed and we have disabled everything. We have managed to neutralize it, that is to say to prevent this attack ” Who took place on Wednesday, told the internet portal Onet.pl Krzysztof Gawkowski, who also holds the post of the Minister of Digitization.
“We could have arrived at a situation where one of the medium -sized cities would have been found without water”he continued, refusing to reveal his name so as not to “Arouse emotion in people”. Nor did he clearly identify the authors of this cyber attack but, in a message on X, he assured that a digital war with Russia “Was underway”.
“No Russian plane will fly over Warsaw and no chariot will enter it, their digital equivalents will appear in their place”he wrote. For him, “The first step in such an attack may consist in trying to cut us with water, gas and electricity, paralyze communications or stop logistics”. According to him, Poland, which invests massively in cybersecurity, is currently managing to thwart 99 % of digital attacks.
Wednesday, the Polish national prosecution announced that it had charged three Poles and three Belarusians suspected of sabotage actions on behalf of “Foreign intelligence services”. A young Ukrainian accused of sabotage and “Recruited by foreign services”according to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was also arrested on the same day. Mr. Tusk had told the press in July that Poland had until that date charged 32 people suspected of “Cooperate with Russian intelligence services”.
