{"id":207907,"date":"2026-01-29T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/cyberattack-on-polands-power-grid-could-have-been-lethal-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:10:11","slug":"cyberattack-on-polands-power-grid-could-have-been-lethal-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/cyberattack-on-polands-power-grid-could-have-been-lethal-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack on Poland’s power grid could have been lethal \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cyberattack on Poland’s power grid could have been lethal \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/01\/29\/cyberattack_poland_power_grid\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-01-29 07:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Cybersecurity experts involved in the cleanup of the cyberattacks on Poland’s power network say the consequences could have been lethal.<\/p>\n

In a report published this week, Dragos said it is working with one of the 30 or so facilities affected by the attacks, allegedly carried out by Russian intelligence.<\/p>\n

It called the attacks irresponsible, and if they succeeded in disrupting the country’s power grid, it could have led to civilian deaths given the timing.<\/p>\n

“An attack on a power grid at any time is irresponsible, but to carry it out in the depths of winter is potentially lethal to the civilian population dependent on it,” Dragos said.<\/p>\n

“It is unfortunate that those who attack these systems appear to deliberately choose timing that maximizes impact on civilian populations.”<\/p>\n

Dragos, which attributed the attacks to the group it calls Electrum but most others call Sandworm, described the attacks as a world-first for targeting distributed energy sources (DERs), which are smaller sites connected to a country’s central power grid.<\/p>\n

The attacks bore similarities with those carried out by Russia a decade ago in Ukraine, where GRU-affiliated Sandworm attackers compromised the country’s power grid.<\/p>\n

The use of wiper malware, DynoWiper in this case, is consistent with Sandworm’s previous attacks on critical infrastructure, but targeting DERs is an evolution in tradecraft.<\/p>\n

Dragos said the various compromises in Poland show these DERs, which don’t often receive the same levels of cybersecurity investment as centralized facilities, now represent an attractive target for state-sponsored attackers.<\/p>\n

“While Dragos has responded to cybersecurity incidents at individual renewable and distributed generation facilities in the past, those incidents involved single sites or opportunistic compromises,” its report…<\/p>\n

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