{"id":15924,"date":"2026-03-12T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/15924\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:58:08","slug":"poland-investigates-iran-links-behind-cyberattack-on-nuclear-facility-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/15924\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland investigates Iran links behind cyberattack on nuclear facility \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nuclear center said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbj.gov.pl\/aktualnosci\/udaremnienie-cyberataku-na-narodowe-centrum-badan-jadrowych\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a> that \u201call safety systems operated according to procedures.\u201d A reactor is \u201coperating safely and smoothly at full power,\u201d Jakub Kupecki, the center\u2019s director said in the statement. The facility carries out research into nuclear energy; Poland does not have nuclear weapons of its own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Polish cybersecurity services and the energy ministry are working with the facility, Gawkowski said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The minister told local media that there are early signals suggesting the attack came from Iran, Reuters reported. &#8220;The first identifications of the entry vectors \u2026 are related to Iran,\u201d he said, adding that more investigation is required.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gawkowski added that hackers could also have used indicators linking the attack to Iran in efforts to hide their real origins. Poland has faced a huge number of Russian cyberattacks since the war in Ukraine began in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Western cyber and intelligence agencies <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/214662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">have warned<\/a> critical entities to be on high alert for Iranian cyberattacks following the start of the conflict in late February.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian embassy in Warsaw did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nuclear center said in a statement that \u201call safety systems operated according to procedures.\u201d A reactor is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,2240,822,154,4777,264,666,34,8447,7479,6286,2677,447,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-15924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-critical-infrastructure","10":"tag-cybersecurity","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-energy-infrastructure","13":"tag-energy-security","14":"tag-hackers","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-network-security","17":"tag-nuclear-power","18":"tag-poland","19":"tag-research","20":"tag-safety","21":"tag-war-in-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116216326285094616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}