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Vietnam's central bank raises alarm after hackers' attacks

Xinhua, August 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Vietnamese central bank has warned banks, credit institutions and financial organizations against hacker attacks after websites of Vietnam Airlines and IT systems at airports were hacked.

Specifically, the State Bank of Vietnam has instructed the agencies to review their network safety, especially online customer service, and take necessary steps to secure their IT system, protect and recover databases if needed, reported local Vietnam News on Tuesday.

The central bank also ordered technicians to monitor IT systems constantly and improve oversight to discover attacks immediately.

Vu Ngoc Son, deputy chairman in charge of anti-malware at Vietnam's BKAV Technology Group, admitted that the recent attacks on the website of Vietnam Airlines and airports'IT systems were very serious attacks and hackers have entered deeply into the airlines database.

"In Vietnam, most enterprises only invest in equipment and ignore online security. When they find an illegal attack, they do not know how to cope with it and it worsens the aftermath,"Son told Vietnam News.

Online security experts said customers should not take photos of cards, store them or share them on email or social networks in order to safeguard their accounts and credit cards.

Users are warned to carefully check online shops before using their cards, use and regularly update anti-virus, anti-malware and anti-key logger software in their computers and mobile devices which are often used to access online shops.

Vietnam News also cited statistics that Vietnam is among the nations to suffer the most malware attacks.

The country is also the number one in spreading viruses through external devices like flash drives, memory cards, and mobile hard disk drives and 71 percent of all computers are infected. Around 40 percent of users suffered from malware contracted online.

In 2015, as many as 10,000 websites of Vietnam were hacked, an increase of 68 percent from 2014. Among the pages being attacked, there were 224 Vietnamese government websites. Endit