Risk of information security is always lurking with the sector says the Director of the Department of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications.
From the beginning of this year to the end of September, the Authority of Information Security has recorded, warned and helped handle 9,519 cyber attacks on information systems in Viet Nam.
Viet Nam has the lowest rate of financial attacks in Southeast Asia, much lower than the average rate in the region, according to global cyber-security and digital privacy company Kaspersky.
The Authority of Information Security, Ministry of Information and Communications reported that there were more than 3,000 cyber attacks on systems in Viet Nam in the first three months of the year.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber criminals have taken advantage of the attention of the whole society to increase cyber attacks, spread malware and scams.
Taking advantage of the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, when demand for online transactions, payments, gifts and to send lucky money increases, many hacker groups are stepping up their fraudulent activities aimed at users of banking services and e-wallets.
The Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications reported a total of 1,056 cyber attacks on information systems of Việt Nam in the first four months of this year.
More than 2,500 websites with Vietnamese domains were attacked in the third quarter, meaning Viet Nam stands in 10th in terms of the largest number of cyber attacks in the world.
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.