Russia’s cyber attacks on Polish utilities draws NCSC alert

A series of cyber attacks against the Polish electricity grid that unfolded at the end of December 2025 have prompted a fresh warning from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), alerting British utilities to the dangers of intrusions orchestrated by Russian state threat actors.

The attacks on Poland, which have been attributed to various units of Russia’s state cyber forces operated by the FSB and GRU intelligence agencies, systems enabling the management of electricity generated from renewable sources at multiple facilities, and two combined heat and power plants (CHPs).

Jonathon Ellison, NCAC director for national resilience, said that attacks like the one that unfolded in Poland may sound far-fetched but were far from it.

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