Polish Press Agency Data Breach Jul 2024

    No known CVEs used

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    Security Incident Summary

    Severity Score
    Significant to High
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    Organization

    Polish Press Agency
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    Threat Actor

    APT28
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    Actor Type

    APT
    Type of Breach
    Other

    News Timeline

    Jul 03, 2024
    Initial Disclosure
    POLISH GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATES RUSSIA-LINKED CYBERATTACK ON STATE NEWS AGENCY securityaffairs.com - Polish authorities have now linked the cyberattack on the Polish Press Agency (PAP) to Russia-sponsored hackers, believed to be APT28, with the attack aiming to spread disinformation and cause instabi...
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    Attribution
    Disinformation Campaign
    Jul 01, 2024
    TTP Disclosure
    Poland to probe Russia-linked cyberattack on state news agency therecord.media - The May cyberattack on the Polish Press Agency was determined to have been facilitated by infecting an employee's device with malware, enabling hackers to post and repost fake news about military mobi...
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    Employee Device
    Contractor Risk

    Organization Details

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    Organization Size
    500
    HQ Location
    Warsaw, Poland
    Industry
    Civil Society and Non-Profits
    Security Stack used by Polish Press Agency at time of breach (best approximation) Why?
    Network Security

    VPN/SASE

    Unknown

    IDS/IPS

    Unknown
    Endpoint Security

    EDR

    Unknown

    MDM

    Unknown
    Identity Management

    SSO / MFA

    Unknown

    IGA

    Unknown
    Application Security

    WAF

    Unknown

    SCA

    Unknown
    Cloud Security

    CASB

    Unknown

    CWPP

    Unknown
    SIEM / Threat Intel

    SIEM

    Unknown

    TIP

    Unknown
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    What is Polish Press Agency?

    The Polish Press Agency is Poland's national news agency, producing and distributing political, economic, social, and cultural news as well as events information. It was founded in 1918 as Polish Telegraphic Agency. PAP serves print media, online, radio and TV, as well as government offices and priv...
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