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Russia-linked hackers targeted Polish elections with disinformation blitz: report

Russia-linked hackers sent a total of 187,000 text messages promoting the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) and took control of screens in 20 shopping malls ahead of last year’s parliamentary elections in Poland, the "Gazeta Wyborcza" newspaper has reported.

Russia-linked hackers sent a total of 187,000 text messages promoting the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) and took control of screens in 20 shopping malls ahead of last year’s parliamentary elections in Poland, the "Gazeta Wyborcza" newspaper has reported. Russia-linked hackers targeted Poland's 2023 parliamentary elections by spreading disinformation through 187,000 text messages promoting the right-wing PiS party and taking control of screens in shopping malls, aiming to destabilize the political system, according to a Polish newspaper.ThisIsEngineering/Pexels.com/CC0 The incident occurred in the run-up to Poland's October 15, 2023 parliamentary ballot, and hackers, likely acting on behalf of Russian intelligence, reportedly planned to send an additional 600,000 text messages urging voters to support the PiS party, Gazeta Wyborcza said, citing an investigation by the Mazovian branch of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Internal Security Agency.

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