{"id":1933364,"date":"2023-05-18T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/polish-news-websites-hit-by-ddos-attacks\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T16:01:41","slug":"polish-news-websites-hit-by-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/polish-news-websites-hit-by-ddos-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish news sites targeted by DDoS attacks."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolish-news-websites-hit-by-ddos-attacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1933364&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Polish News Websites Hit by Suspected Russian DDoS Attacks<\/h2>\n<h3>Government Suspects Russian Hacking Groups<\/h3>\n<p>Several Polish news websites were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">attacks<\/a> that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-proposed-training-citizens-to-monitor-pro-life-suburban-moms-other-radicalization-suspects-report\/\" title=\"Biden admin plans to train citizens to monitor pro-life suburban moms and other radicalization suspects.\">government suspects<\/a> could be the work of Russian hacking groups, according to the digitalisation minister. Warsaw has positioned itself as one of Ukraine\u2019s staunchest allies since Russia invaded the country, and Poland says it frequently faces Russian attempts to destabilise the situation in the country. Moscow has consistently denied that it carries out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-wray-says-china-threat-is-escalating\/\" title=\"FBI Director Wray says China threat is escalating\">hacking operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How DDoS Attacks Work<\/h3>\n<p>DDoS attacks work by directing high volumes of internet traffic towards targeted servers in a relatively unsophisticated bid to knock them offline.<\/p>\n<h3>Immediate Action Taken<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cHaving information that such attacks are being prepared, we immediately informed all interested editorial offices so that they had the opportunity to react to this situation,\u201d said Janusz Cieszynski, quoted by state-run news agency PAP.<\/p>\n<h3>Confirmation of Attack<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/polish-news-websites-hit-by-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-officer-is-fired-for-donating-25-for-kyle-rittenhouse-the-donation-site-is-now-raising-money-for-him\/\" title=\"Donation Campaign For Policeman Fired For Giving  To Kyle Rittenhouse's Legal Defense Raises Thousands Of Dollars For Officer\">ddos<\/a>-attacks\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Polish news sites targeted by DDoS attacks.&#8221;>websites affected included<\/a> those of daily newspapers Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita and Super Express. Wyborcza confirmed on Twitter that it had been the victim of an attack, as did news website wPolityce.pl.<\/p>\n<h3>Denial from Russia<\/h3>\n<p>The Russian foreign ministry did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reporting by Alan Charlish and Karol Badohal<\/li>\n<li>Editing by Alex Richardson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish news websites were targeted by DDoS attacks, possibly by Russian hackers, according to the digitalisation minister. Poland has been a strong supporter of Ukraine since Russia&#8217;s invasion, and claims to be frequently targeted by cyberattacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1933365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[6361,27064,4133,20244,7022,7185],"class_list":["post-1933364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-attacks","tag-ddos","tag-news","tag-polish","tag-sites","tag-targeted"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}