Exatel: Over 1,000 Polish websites have infected the malware computers

According to state-owned cyber security provider Exatel, over 1,000 Polish websites have been infected with malware. This would be the biggest cyber attack on the Polish internet. The affected sites acted as a so-called “watering holes” and affected PCs of the internet users visiting them. Exatel experts managed to partially track where the attack came from. “The server that controlled this network and its mechanism of operation was located outside the Central and Western Europe,” Exatel said. They also managed to discover what kind of data was gathered. As is usual in such cases, the attack was discovered by accident. “Because its creators overlooked the fact that there was one additional sign in the webpage code, we found the first trace, so we had to watch for sites with similar footprints. After weeks of observation, our specialists discovered the script injection scheme and server address which controlled the entire process.”