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.

Cybersecurity companies predict that the rise of cyberattacks will continue in 2021 in Vietnam.

A total of 121 teams from 31 Vietnamese colleges and universities and 37 teams from those in six other ASEAN member states will kick off the starting round of the 2020 ASEAN Student Contest on Information Security on October 17.