Poland foiled a cyberattack against the water and sewage system of a “large city,” Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said on Thursday, adding that a cyber war with Russia was “ongoing.”
“At the last minute, we managed to ensure that when the attack began, our (security) services found out about it and we shut everything down. We managed to mitigate it,” Gawkowski told web portal Onet.pl, speaking of the attack which took place on Wednesday.
“Yesterday, it was possible to end up in a situation in which one of the larger cities would have been left without water,” he added, refusing to name the city in question in order not to “stir up people’s emotions.”
Gawkowski, who is also the minister of digital affairs, did not indicate who might be the perpetrators of the attack but in a post on X, he referred to Russian hostility.
“No Russian planes will fly into Warsaw nor will tanks roll in — instead, their digital counterparts will appear,” he wrote.
“The first stage of such an attack may involve attempts to cut us off from water, gas and electricity, paralyse communications or halt logistics,” he added.
