Vietnamese websites under cyber attack

by VTV411 February 2017 Last updated at 08:09 AM

VTV.vn - Over 400 websites with the address .vn were subject to cyber attacks during the Lunar New Year holidays, according to the Ministry of Information and Communication.

From Jan 26th to 31st, 6 government pages, which had .gov.vn in their addresses, were among the 399 victims of the cyber criminals. The hackers' primary method of sabotage was changing the interface. According to BKAV experts, most of these websites had not paid adequate attention to cyber security. Over 40% of Vietnamese websites contain conspicuous weaknesses and are hence vulnerable to cyber crime. In fact one in every 10 websites with the address .vn is considered to be open to cyber infiltration.

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