Vietnam records over 5,400 cyberattacks in five months

Inside a workshop to fix computers in Ho Chi Minh City, November 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Ha An

Vietnam was hit by 5,463 cyberattacks in the first five months of this year, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.

The report by the ministry’s Authority of Information Security says 930 were Phishing, the type of attack that attempts to steal money or identity, by getting a person to reveal personal information such as credit card numbers, bank information, or passwords on websites that pretend to be legitimate.

Deface, an attack on a website that changes the visual appearance of a website or a web page, accounted for 776 attacks.

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