– This is an attack on the servers, computers of Civic Platform, Rafał Trzaskowski's election campaign headquarters. It was detected by Civic Platform's IT specialists but reported according to procedures to NASK and the services, in order to investigate the sources of this attack – said Jan Grabiec in an interview with Piotr Witwicki on the program “Gość Wydarzeń” on Polsat News.

– What we and the services have managed to establish so far concerns an attempt to infect several dozen computers, from accounting departments to campaign staff members, by attempting to gain complete control over these computers through a virus, a Trojan horse, which would enable tracking of what is happening on these computers, blocking or deleting content, but also, potentially, generating content and distributing it through these computers – he continued.

“An Email Account Was Compromised”

– The attack involved compromising the email account of one of the collaborators. Through this email account, an attempt was made to generate false correspondence, supposedly originating from this collaborator, which was intended to be opened on the campaign headquarters computers, and at that moment, an infection would occur – the Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister continued.

– As far as I know, in these several dozen cases, the correspondence was not opened, so the infection did not succeed because our IT services identified this, and it lasted in the evening, at night, and over the last several dozen hours, indicating that it required investigation – he added.

“The Source of These Actions is Related to Groups from the East”

– We are a dozen or so hours after the matter has been investigated by CERT NASK and the services, and we have confirmation here, I would say, as representatives of the government or as a representative of the Prime Minister's Chancellery, I know that the source of origin of these actions is related to the operations of operative groups from the East, which are controlled or financed, maintained by special services – Grabiec emphasized.