Ransomware attacks increasingly target Vietnam’s financial sector


At a recent conference on digital finance, Le Van Tuan, Director of the Department of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications, said finance is a sector with a high ranking in digital transformation, but at the same time, the risk of information security is always lurking with the sector.

According to statistics from Viettel Cyber Security’s system, ransomware campaigns in the first six months of this year increased by 70% against the same period last year, including about 30 attacks on large corporations, banks and financial institutions in Vietnam.

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Source: Viet Bao News


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