{"id":42652,"date":"2026-01-15T13:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=42652"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:45:23","slug":"russia-carried-out-a-large-scale-cyberattack-on-polands-energy-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/russia-carried-out-a-large-scale-cyberattack-on-polands-energy-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"russia carried out a large-scale cyberattack on Poland&#8217;s energy infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of December 2025, Poland was on the verge of a massive blackout due to a targeted cyberattack on the energy sector. This was stated by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digitalization of Poland, Krzysztof Tch\u00f3rzewski, who also reported russia&#8217;s involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f According to him, this was the most serious attack on the country&#8217;s energy infrastructure in recent years, aimed at leaving citizens without electricity. Power stations and renewable energy facilities across the country were targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Krzysztof Tch\u00f3rzewski stressed that russia no longer needs tanks or aircraft &#8211; &#8220;digital tanks are already here&#8221;. The attack took place in difficult weather conditions, which were intended to exacerbate its consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Poland managed to repel the cyberattack, but the very fact of the incident indicates an escalation of russia&#8217;s hybrid aggression against EU countries. Cyberattacks are part of the hybrid war that russia is waging against all of Europe, not just against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Center previously reported that russia systematically uses cyberattacks as a tool of pressure on European states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of December 2025, Poland was on the verge of a massive blackout due to a targeted cyberattack on the energy sector. This was stated by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digitalization of Poland, Krzysztof Tch\u00f3rzewski, who also reported russia&#8217;s involvement. \u25ab\ufe0f According to him, this was the most serious attack&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}