Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said on Friday that Russian hackers were attacking the website of his Civic Platform party in advance of Sunday’s first-round presidential election.
Nearly 29 million Poles go to the polls in a two-round process that will determine the country’s defence policy and EU path for years to come.
The final days of the campaign have seen warnings by Poland’s national cybersecurity agency (Nask) about operations on social media “aimed at destabilising the electoral process”. Mr Tusk wrote on Twitter/X that a known Russian hacker group was “conducting intensive activities … the attack is ongoing”.
Though 13 candidates are running for president, Sunday’s poll is the latest proxy clash between liberal conservative Mr Tusk and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, his political nemesis and national conservative opposition leader.
Yeah, they’ll do that