Many cyber attacks on large Vietnamese enterprises

At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Information and Communications on the afternoon of April 8, a representative of the Department of Information Security provided the above information. According to the representative, cyber attacks and malware attacks are not new problems, but rather a prominent concern in 2024 and the coming time.

Representative of the Department of Information Security (Ministry of Information and Communications) answered at the press conference

The hackers' trick is to exploit and infiltrate the business system, lie in wait for the right opportunity to break the lock and demand ransom.

According to the representative of the Department of Information Security, there are regulations that information systems of state agencies and enterprises need to periodically assess information security every year to promptly fix incidents and prevent information security.

Through recent incidents, the Information Security Department believes that if the above review regulations are strictly implemented, businesses and agencies can overcome and mitigate incidents.

"The regulation requires agencies and units to develop incident response plans in all situations. Important systems need to be backed up and reserved to reduce damage, as well as how to communicate to the outside when an incident occurs... However, in the past, agencies and businesses have deployed but invested in systems that were not commensurate with their systems, and there is a lot of data on the network, so the risk of malware attacks and extortion is more frequent" - a representative of the Department of Information Security said.

According to the representative of the Department of Information Security, cyber attacks are inevitable, but the important thing is to organize, be ready to respond, and restore operations.

As an immediate solution, the Information Security Department said it has sent a document to review units to have a comprehensive assessment of the information security system.

Yesterday (April 7, 2024), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh issued Official Dispatch No. 33/CD-TTg requesting ministries, branches and localities to strengthen network information security. The Ministry of Information and Communications hopes that agencies and enterprises will review their management systems, strictly implement information security inspection timelines, comply with legal regulations and strengthen information security at all levels.

"Until now, when there is an incident, units often hide information, which makes it difficult to warn widely, and there is no lesson for related agencies. Therefore, when agencies have an incident, they need to comply, coordinate with functional agencies, promptly warn widely, and reduce damage to agencies and units in each field" - said a representative of the Information Security Department.

Previously, on March 24, hackers attacked the encryption of VNDirect's technology system. After more than a week since the incident was discovered, with the support of authorities and a team of cybersecurity experts from major cybersecurity companies in Vietnam, the incident was basically resolved and VNDirect's system restored trading operations from April 1.

However, just one week after the cyber attack that encrypted all of VNDirect's system data was discovered, on April 2, Vietnam's cyberspace continued to record that PVOIL was intentionally and illegally attacked, causing disruption to the entire information technology system of the enterprise.

The cyber attack has caused PVOIL's information technology system to be suspended, including the electronic invoice issuance system for sales, which is temporarily inoperable.

Source: https://nld.com.vn/bo-tt-tt-nhieu-chien-dich-tan-cong-mang-nham-vao-cac-doanh-nghiep-lon-cua-viet-nam-196240408174926134.htm