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170 websites suffer cyber-attacks during Tet

by VTV423 February 2018 Last updated at 10:00 AM

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170 websites suffer cyber-attacks during Tet
VTV.vn - During the 2018 Lunar New Year Holiday, nearly 170 websites in Vietnam were attacked by hackers, according to the Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

The list of websites that were attacked includes 55 websites with the domain name dot vn, 10 sites with the domain name dot gov dot vn that are owned by state agencies, and 98 websites with the domain name dot com. Most of these websites had their interfaces distorted and their source codes attacked by malwares.

On Jan 25th, the Authority of Information Security also detected 700 domain names that were used to create fraudulent promotion and discount schemes, which targeted Vietnamese consumers.