#CYBER SECURITY

Russia has a special intelligence unit dedicated to conducting cyberattacks against Poland as part of an ongoing cyberwar, Poland’s digital affairs minister said on Tuesday.

Poland has stopped several coordinated cyber attacks on critical infrastructure in the past two days, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski.

Baltic government ministers have said that the suspected Russian jamming of GPS flight systems has become “too dangerous to ignore” after two Finnish planes had to make a U-turn in the last few days. Russia has been implicated in the jamming of signals for several years, but incidents have spiked dramatically over the last few months.

Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs has warned of increased Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, targeting the institutions and entities of allied states.