The Viet Nam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) under the Ministry of Information and Communications has reported that it detected 739 cyber-attacks on Viet Nam''s information systems in May or 23 attacks per day.
The VNCERT’s statistics showed there had been 8,319 network attacks in Viet Nam as of the end the third quarter of this year, including 1,575 malware cases, 4,829 deface cases and 1,915 phishing attacks.
The Viet Nam Computer Emergency Response Team uncovered several advanced persistent threat attacks on government websites in the central city of Da Nang in late July.
The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) has issued a warning of attacks by malicious code, which the organisation believe is targeting banks and the country’s vital infrastructure networks.
The Viet Nam Computer Emergency Response Centre (VNCERT) hosted the 2018 ASEAN-Japan Information Security Drillin Ha Noi, central Da Nang and HCM City on Wednesday.
The Viet Nam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) yesterday said that within the two first months of 2018, Vietnamese websites came under a total of 1,504 cyber attacks in the forms of defacing, malware and phishing.
The Viet Nam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) under the Ministry of Information and Communications reported nearly 7,700 cyber attacks into Vietnamese websites over the past three months.
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) will develop and
submit a strategic plan on cyber information security to the government,
according to the Minister of MIC Truong Minh Tuan.
Hackers from China and US launched the most cyber attacks against systems in Viet Nam last year, recent statistics from the Viet Nam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) revealed.
Viet Nam joined 13 other countries in addressing cyber security incidence
responses at the 2015 ASEAN Computer Emergency Response Team Incident
Drills (ACID) on October 28.
More than 700 websites in Viet Nam, including 18 government
websites, were attacked in the first week of August, the Viet Nam
Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCert) reported.
Viet Nam joined 12 other countries in performing manoeuvres for cyber
security incidence responses at the 2014 ASEAN Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERTS) Incident Drills (ACID) here on September 24.
The IT infrastructure in Viet Nam has expanded in recent years, making information security a crucial issue. Moon Jae-woong from the Korea Information Security Industry Association
(KISIA) said at the Vietnam-Korea Information Security
Forum and Business Meeting 2014.
The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) has saved 2,117
internet protocol (IP) addresses of government agencies infected with
botnet in the first half of this year.