- POLSA announces that it was suffering a data violation
- The Agency says it closes its IT systems by alarm
- Insiders claim that the incident was due to E -Mail -Compromis
The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) has confirmed that it has recently suffered a cyberattack that forced it to pull the infrastructure offline.
The Agency confirmed the attack via an X post saying that relevant authorities have already been notified.
“There has been a cybersecurity event on POLSA,” the machine translated x post reads. “The relevant services and institutions have been informed. The situation is analyzed. To secure data after the hack, the POLSA network was immediately disconnected from the Internet. We’ll keep you updated. “
Russia is accused
Such a short message left plenty of room for speculation, and certainly some media began to discuss whether this was a ransomware attack. After all, it is standard practice in ransomware attacks to interrupt affected affected infrastructure from the Internet, to prevent data leaks and quickly separate compounds to any persistence mechanisms.
An anonymous source told Registered This POLSAS E emails was compromised and the staff was asked to use phones for communication instead of E emails.
The news was later confirmed by Polish Digitization Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski, who said the Polish government was engaged in “intensive operational activities” to understand who the striker is. Gawkowski added that Polsa got a helping hand from the country’s two computer safety international teams, CSIRT NASSKE and CSIRT MON.
The identity of the threat actors or the target of the attack is not known at this time. Pakinomist Reports Warsaw has “repeatedly” accused Moscow of trying to destabilize Poland because of the military support it delivers to Ukraine, which Russia is at war right now.
Russia has denied all claims, Pakinomist Added.
Polsa supported Poland’s commitment to European Space Agency (ESA) projects, including participation in Exomars mission and the development of satellite technologies. POLSA also played a role in the launch of Poland’s first scientific satellites, such as PW-SAT and Brite-PL, which focused on mitigation of space drop and Stellar research.
Via Registered
