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Poland's Energy Sector Attack, Part Two: When the Path Into OT Is a Private Cellular Network
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Poland's Energy Sector Attack, Part Two: When the Path Into OT Is a Private Cellular Network

A second Polish combined heat and power plant was hit the same morning as the December 2025 attacks. CERT Polska's follow-up report describes something no one had seen in the wild, an attacker pivoting into an operational technology network across a shared private cellular network (a private APN). It explains how the chain worked, why the weak link sat on infrastructure the plant did not control, and what every operator relying on a private APN should check now.

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