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Vietnam recorded 6,219 cyber attacks since the start of 2019, a year-on-year surge of 104 percent, said the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT).

PSNews - The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) on July 23 has issued an alert on malware targeting financial institutions and national major infrastructure organizations.

Preventing Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks on national critical information infrastructure was the main topic of a seminar and drill on cyber security for central Vietnam and the Central Highlands in the central city of Da Nang on June 29.

PSNews - A large number of Vietnamese businesses are in distress after ransomware GandCrab attacked their computers, demanding user to pay $400 to $1,000 to get their data back.

PSNews - Vietnamese websites were hut by 1,504 cyber attacks in the first two months of 2018, according to Nguyen Khac Lich, Deputy Head of the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) under the Ministry of Information and Communications. 

The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team has ordered all cybersecurity units at State agencies, enterprises and banks from the central to the local level to guard against the CoinHive malicious code.

PSNews-Two weeks before the first attack by WannaCry was detected, VNCERT had implemented preventive measures and instructions to handle these types of malicious codes.

PSNews - Targets of Shadow Brokers are mainly large-scale monetary funds and banks in the Middle East (UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Palestine, Yemen). 

Vietnamese websites have suffered nearly 7,700 cyber attacks in the first three months of 2017, according to a recent report by state-run Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT).

PSNews- 134,375 cyber attacks, including Phishing, Malware and Deface, were recorded by the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) in 2016, report says.