Certain attacks on the Internet such as spam, phishing, scam comments on social networks, look quite simple; yet they are wrecking a havoc for both the community and businesses in Vietnam.

Singapore and Australia have agreed on solutions to further deepen their comprehensive strategic partnership and expand cooperation to new areas like the digital economy, cyber security  and food security.

Vietnam this year is going to announce its strategy on national digitalization in order to form a digital economy and society, as said by the Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung in the international conference on cyber security held yesterday in Hanoi.

The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) has recently issued a warning on the newest grave attack of ransomware GandCrab 5.2 in Vietnam. This has given a wake-up call to all organizations in the country regarding a necessary cooperation to further strengthen cyber security.

The National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global cyber security company Kaspersky Lab to implement solutions for domestic online security challenges and expand the cyber security capacity of the Vietnamese Government.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project on supervising the cyber security of IT services and systems that form the foundation of e-Government operations.

VNG Corporation has just announced that it discovered a post on an international forum with the confidential information on 160 million Zing ID accounts on April 26.

Newly released statistics from Kaspersky show that in 2017 there were around 3 cyber-attacks per second globally. What is more, Vietnam is classified as being highly exposed to hacking risks, and 2018 is predicted to witness a boom of intentional security attacks when the country determines to build a smart city with many cameras, sensor and Internet of Thing (IoT) devices.

The cyber security drill WhiteHat Drill 05 with the theme of ‘Investigating, handling, and preventing coin-mining malware via software vulnerabilities’ will be launched online on the website of the Vietnamese cyber security community at the address WhiteHat.vn