Polish Space Agency offline as it recovers from cyberattack

​The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) has been offline since it disconnected its systems from the Internet over the weekend to contain a breach of its IT infrastructure. After detecting the attack, the agency reported the incident to relevant authorities and launched an investigation to assess its impact. "There has been a cybersecurity incident at POLSA. The relevant services and institutions have been informed. The situation is being analyzed," POLSA said on Sunday. "In order to secure data after the hack, the POLSA network was immediately disconnected from the Internet. We will keep you updated." POLSA has not disclosed the nature of the security incident and has yet to attribute the attack to a specific threat actor. While no updates have been published since Sunday, sources inside the agency told The Register that staff was asked to use phones after the attackers compromised POLSA's email systems. The agency now works with the Polish Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIR ... Read full article.