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Researchers say Russian government hackers were behind attempted Poland power outage

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Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2026-01-23

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Zack Whittaker

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A December 29–30 attempted cyberattack targeted Poland's energy infrastructure: cybersecurity firm ESET recovered a destructive wiper named DynoWiper and attributed it with medium confidence to Sandworm (a Russian GRU-linked group); Polish authorities report defenses prevented critical outages though the attack could have affected up to half a million homes.

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