The number of cyberattacks in Vietnam continues to decrease slightly

According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, in May 2022, the number of Vietnamese IP addresses in botnets (ghost computer networks) was 745,012 addresses, down 3.18% compared to April 2022.

Also in the past 5/2022, the Department of Information Security (Ministry of Information and Communications) has recorded, warned and guided to handle 847 cyber attacks that caused problems on information systems in Vietnam. Male.

In which, there were 161 Phishing (fake attack), 226 Deface (interface change attack), 460 Malware (malicious code attack), down 9.7% compared to April 2022.

Regarding the reason that the number of cyberattacks continued to decrease compared to the previous month, the Ministry of Information and Communications explained that the socio-economic situation was stable, all types of economic activities were reopened as before. during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Along with that, the economic management and promotion solutions of the Party, the Government and ministries and local branches continue to be effective in socio-economic development, accordingly, raising vigilance , strengthening the assurance of network information safety as well as security and social order are focused.

To ensure network information security, the Ministry of Information and Communications continues to strengthen supervision and proactively scan Vietnam’s cyberspace; evaluate, make statistics and continue to promote propaganda and warnings on the mass media for users to know and avoid.