Prime Minister Donald Tusk's party, targeted by a cyber attack before the Polish presidential elections
Donald Tusk, photo: Attila Husejnow / Zuma Press / Profimedia
A cyber attack has removed the site of the Polish ruling party on Friday, just before the presidential elections this weekend, representatives of Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced, according to AFP.
Party candidate Civic Platform (PO) Presidential, Vafal Trzaskowski, who is also mayor of Warsaw, occupies the first position in polls before the first tour on Sunday.
“From 9 o'clock in the morning (10 in the morning, Romania time, no) there is a DDOS attack against the site of the civic platform,” said Jan Grabiec, the head of the Polish prime minister.
“The main page of PO and an additional one dedicated to donations for the campaign have been temporarily deactivated,” he added Grabic in the X -specifics, without calling the source of the cyber attack.
Jan Grabiec said that PO is working on restoring the site.
Nask, a Polish research institute on the cyber security area, reported on Thursday, interference attempts in the election campaign through messages in accordance with Russian propaganda.
In April, the Polish Ministry of Digitization said that Russian cyber attacks against Poland intensified.
Also last month, Prime Minister Donald Tusk revealed that the computer system of his party was the target of a cyber attack, which he described as “foreign interference”.
PO candidate, first in polls before Polish presidential
At the presidential elections in Poland, the EU and NATO member country with 38 million inhabitants, apply 13 candidates.
At the head of the polls is the mayor of Warsaw, Vafal Trzaskowski, with scores of about 30% in the latest research.
The nationalist historian Karol Nawrocki, supported by the Law and Justice Party (PIS), the main opposition formation, is on the second place in polls, at a score of about 25%. The conservative candidate is also supported by George Simion, who was on Tuesday night at an election rally in the city of Zabrze.
“As a new president of Romania, I will come every day to campaign for Karol Nawrocki,” said the gold leader at the Poland Electoral Event.
The Prime Minister of Poland reacted as a result of images with George Simion and Karol Nawrocki on the same stage.
“Russia is having fun. Nawrocki and her pro-Russian Romanian counterpart George Simion, on a stage 5 days before the presidential elections in Poland and Romania, everything is clear,” wrote Donald Tusk on Tuesday, on X and Facebook platforms.
