ASEAN CERTs Incident Drill held in Hanoi on September 5
Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam participated in the drill.
The drill was held online in Hanoi, Danang and HCM City simultaneously.
Vncert's director Nguyen Trong Duong said at the opening ceremony that cyber attacks were on the rise. The account information of nearly a billion Yahoo was recently stolen and hackers stole the personal particulars of 1.5 million patients on SingHealth's IT database.
"No one is 100% safe. It's a matter of time and how," Duong said.
While technology is fast growing and ever-changing, there are also more and more serious attacks and the online world is becoming even more vulnerable. Over 230,000 computers in 150 countries were infected with WannaCry ransomware.
According to securelisst.com, Vietnam is among the top 5 countries that suffered from DDoS attacks in the final quarter of 2017. It is also ranked fourth in the top 10 countries that have most computers controlled by botnets. Statistics from Vncert show that 13,382 attacks were carried out last year. 5,215 of which were malware, 4,155 were attacks that defaced websites and 2,101 were phishing.
44.07% of the attacks were against the websites with .vn domains. 36.58% were at edu.vn domains and 9.45% were at gov.vn domains. The hackers mostly wanted to steal information, but there are many cases where they attacked to take over the control.
Cyber crimes caused by coin mining viruses are rising worldwide. Virtual coins can be traded more freely and used for illegal activities. "Instead of demanding ransoms, the hackers are now trying to take the control over the computers directly to mine coins for them," Duong said.
The drill was jointly held by the Vncert to maintain communication between Vncert and other countries for emergencies and to help improve the technological capacity of Vietnamese firms.
