#Kaspersky

On the sidelines of the Signing Ceremony of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime and High-Level Conference, Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang had a meeting with Chief Executive Officer of Kaspersky Lab Evgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky on the afternoon of October 25, in Hanoi.

Along with a surge in the number of mobile phone users accessing the Internet, there has been an increase in the number of mobile malware targeting Vietnamese users, according to the global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.

Vietnam is among the top three target countries for phishing websites in Southeast Asia in the first half of the year, according to the global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.

Vietnam continues to be one of the countries with the highest number of detected online infections, according to Kaspersky Security Network data.

The European institution’s action comes in the wake of previous bans on Kaspersky lab by the American and Dutch governments, particularly over the claims of Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 US elections. These accusations have repeatedly been denied by Moscow as baseless, and no evidence of Russia's involvement has ever been provided.