The Authority of Information Security, under Viet Nam’s Ministry of Information and Communications, has forecast five major trends in network safety and security to watch in 2019.
Vietnamese users suffered a record VND14.9 trillion (US$637.6 million) in damage from computer viruses this year, an increase of 21 per cent over last year.
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.