More than 20 million cyberattack alerts were uncovered in the first quarter of 2024, up 33% year-on-year, Spokesman of the Ministry of Public Security Lieutenant General To An Xo said at the Government’s regular press conference on April 3.

VOV.VN - VNDirect, the first online trading broker in Vietnam, said on March 25 that it has resolved a cyberattack by an international organisation on its system and has been making efforts to restore the entire system in order to limit disruptions in transactions.

There were 950 cyberattacks on Vietnam’s information system in January, a decline of 33% and 23% compared with that of December 2023 and the same period last year, respectively.

There were some 13,900 cyberattacks in Vietnam in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%, according to a report announced by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on December 12.

VOV.VN - A team of Viettel Cyber Security, a member of Viettel Group, won the Pwn2Own Toronto 2023, the world’s leading contest in cyber-attacks.

Global cybersecurity company Kaspersky thwarted an enormous number of email phishing attacks in Vietnam throughout 2022, for both individual and enterprise users, according to a recent company report.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese white-hat hackers Ngo Minh Hieu and Pham Tien Manh have been recognised among security experts who have significantly contributed to Apple’s development over the last month.

Latest statistics from the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) showed that the number of cyber-attacks in Vietnam has abated, reported Sai Gon Giai phong (Liberated Sai Gon) newspaper.

Vietnam recorded more than 240 cyber-attacks between January 29 and February 5 when the nation was celebrating Tet, Vietnam’s traditional New Year holiday, according the Ministry of Information and Communications’ Authority of Information Security (AIS).

A student team from the University of Technology won first prize in the 2021 ASEAN Student Contest on Information Security on November 13.