Poland Reports Surge in Cyberattacks, Blames Russia for Targeting Critical Infrastructure

Poland has reported a sharp increase in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and accused Russia of organizing large-scale operations against the country.

The Gaze reports on it, referring to Reuters.

Polish Minister of Digital Technology Krzysztof Gawkowski said that Russian military intelligence has tripled its resources for cyberattacks against Poland this year.

In the first nine months of 2025, about 170,000 cyber incidents were recorded, a significant part of which are linked to Russian structures. Every day, between 2,000 and 4,000 attack attempts are recorded, and about a thousand of them pose a real threat to state systems.

According to the Minister, the attackers are expanding their range of targets and are now attacking not only water supply and sewage facilities, but also the energy sector.

The information about Russia's activities is based on data from Polish special services, although the exact methods of operation are not disclosed. The Kremlin traditionally denies its involvement in such operations.

Gawkowski stressed that Poland, as one of Ukraine's most active allies in NATO, remains the main target of Russian cyberattacks.

“Russian activity is the most severe because it targets critical infrastructure essential to maintaining normal life,” Gawkowski said.

He also reported that during the Russian drone attack on September 10, a coordinated cyberattack took place — the largest since 2022. After that, fake reports spread in the Polish information space, allegedly claiming that Ukraine had launched the drones.

To this end, according to the Minister, bots that had been dormant for a long time were reactivated.

As The Gaze informed earlier, American investigators have found evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for hacking into the federal court document storage system in the United States.