Cyber-attacks detection and prevention

The legislator has included in the Criminal Code a number of objective elements of criminal offences, which either contain features related to information and communication technologies or can be satisfied by a cyberattack. These offences include:

- Art. 126a. Public provocation to commit a prohibited act

- Art. 130. Espionage

- Art. 132. Intelligence disinformation

- Art. 133. Insulting the Nation or the Republic of Poland

- Art. 135. Assault or insult upon the President of the Republic of Poland

- Art. 136. Active assault or insult of a representative of a foreign state

- Art. 137. Public insult of a sign or symbol of the State

- Art. 151. Aiming to commit suicide and giving assistance

- Art. 165 Causing public danger

- Art. 190. Penal threat

- Art. 190a. Stalking

- Art. 191. Forcing a specific conduct, abandonment or suppression

- Art. 191a. Recording the image of a naked person

- Art. 196. Offence against religious feelings of others

- Art. 200a. Electronic contact with a minor for paedophilic purposes

- Article 200b. Public promotion of paedophiliac content

- Art. 202. Presentation and distribution of pornography

- Art. 212. Defamation

- Art. 216. Defamation of a person

- Art. 224a. False report of a threat

- Art. 226. Insulting a public official or a constitutional organ of the Republic of Poland

- Art. 227. Misappropriation of the function of a public official

- Art. 228. Bribery of a public functionary

- Art. 229. Bribery

- Article 230. Passive paid patronage

- Article 230a. Active paid patronage

- Article 232. exerting influence on the activities of the court

- Art. 234. False accusation

- Article 235. creation of false evidence

- Art. 236. Withholding evidence of the suspect's innocence

- Art. 238. False report of an offence

- Art. 239. Supporting and abetting

- Art. 240. Criminal failure to report a criminal act

- Art. 241. Unlawful dissemination of the news from the pre-trial proceedings or trial

- Art. 244. Failure to comply with the penal measures ordered by the court

- Article 245 Using violence or threats to influence a participant in the proceedings

- Article 246. Extortion by a public official to give testimony, explanations, information or a statement

- Article 250. Unlawful exertion of influence on a person entitled to vote

- Article 251 Breach of the secrecy of the ballot

- Article 255 Public incitement to commit or praise of a transgression or fiscal offence

- Article 255a. Dissemination of content facilitating the commission of a terrorist offence

- Article 256 Propagation of fascism or another totalitarian regime

- Article 257. Racism

- Art. 265 Disclosure or use of classified information with the clause "secret" or "top secret"

- Art. 266. Disclosure or use of information obtained in connection with the exercise of an official function or activity

- Art. 267 Obtaining information unlawfully

- Article 268 Obstructing the authorised person from learning the information

- Article 268a. Destroying, damaging, deleting, altering or obstructing access to computer data

- Article 269 Destroying, damaging, deleting or altering sensitive computer data

- Article 269a. Interference with operation of an IT system, data communication system or network

- Article 269b. Unlawful production, acquisition, disposal or provision of computer programmes

- Art. 270. Falsifying a document and using it as authentic

- Art. 270a. Falsifying an invoice and using it for authenticity

- Art. 271. Misrepresentation

- Art. 271a. Misrepresentation on an invoice

- Art. 272. Fraudulent use of false statements in a document

- Art. 273. Using a document that is false Article 275.

- Art. 275. Using another person's identity document

- Art. 276. Destroying or concealing a document without the right to dispose of it

- Art. 277a. Falsifying an invoice or using a falsified invoice with the amount stating property of great value

- Art. 278. Theft

- Art. 282. Robbery

- Art. 284. Misappropriation

- Art. 285. Activation of telephone impulses on someone else's account

- Article 286. Fraud

- Art. 287. Computer fraud

- Article 291. Intentional receiving

- Article 292. Unintentional receiving

- Article 293. Computerised taking of property

- Article 296. Causing damage in business dealings

- Article 296a. Bribery in a managerial position

- Art. 297. Extortion of credit

- Art. 298. Extortion of compensation

- Article 299. Money laundering

- Article 300. Hindering satisfaction of the creditor

- Article 303. Failure to keep or false keeping of business records

- Article 304. Exploitation of the contracting party

- Article 305. Interference with public tender

- Art. 306. Removing, counterfeiting or altering identification marks

- Article 310. Falsification of money, means of payment or securities

- Article 311. Falsification of information in securities trading

- Article 312. Circulating counterfeited or forged money, means of payment or payment documents

- Article 313. Falsification of official securities marks

- Article 314. Falsification of official marks with a view to their use in business transactions

- Art. 346. Violence or unlawful threat by a soldier against his superior

- Art. 347. Insult of a superior by a soldier