There has been a 60 percent increase in cyberattacks since January and a staggering 130 percent increase over the past six months, PAP wrote, quoting an article published in the Rzeczpospolita daily.
It references recent research conducted by the Israeli company Check Point Software, which revealed that Polish companies and agencies face an average of 1,430 attacks per week. Meanwhile, Hungary experiences 1,390 attacks, Germany 1,011, and Latvia 660 attacks weekly.
Only in the Czech Republic do state institutions have to fend off more attacks - nearly 2,000 per week, the newspaper said.
The most active hacker group in the region, identified as the Russian group NoName057(16), has targeted various platforms this year, including government and local government services alongside Polish Radio.
According to Check Point Software, over half of last month’s threats to the Polish network were attributed to malicious websites and web applications, while 45 percent were related to email-based attacks.
Interestingly, this distribution contrasts with global trends, where email attacks typically account for over 60 percent of cybersecurity threats, Rzeczpospolita noted.
On Wednesday, Poland’s national research institute and internet data operator NASK said in a statement that a hacker group had targeted government institutions this week using malicious software.
Technical indicators and attack patterns resembling previously documented incidents facilitated the attribution of the cyberattack to the APT28 group, the statement read.
It also reported that the group is part of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency.
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Source: PAP