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Polish ruling parties under cyberattack by Russian hackers two days before election, says PM Tusk
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“Two days before the elections, a group of Russian hackers operating on Telegram attacked the websites of Civic Platform,” wrote Tusk on social media on Friday afternoon. Jacek Dziura, a spokesman for NASK, a state agency tasked with monitoring cyberthreats, told Polsat News that they “can confirm that the pro-Russian group ‘noname057’ is responsible for today’s DDoS attacks on some Polish websites”. Opposition parties have, however, criticised NASK for failing to respond to the issue earlier and have accused of it providing misleading and sometimes false information in its communication about the incident.
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