Over 2,500 cyber attacks on Vietnamese websites in Q3

Over 2,500 cyber attacks on Vietnamese websites in Q3

HÀ NỘI – More than  二, 五00 websites with Vietnamese domains were attacked in the third quarter, meaning Việt Nam stands in  一0th in terms of the largest number of cyber attacks in the world.

This number was tracked by the CyStack Attack Map system, developed by the Việt Nam-based cyber security platform Cystack. It detected  一 二 七, 三 六 七 attacks on websites around the world in the last three months, down slightly compared to the same period last year.

However, the number of attacks on Vietnamese websites increased by  一 一 三 per cent over a year earlier (from  一, 一 八 三 to  二, 五 二 三). The domain names on the receiving end of the most malicious attempts were .com, .vn and .net.

“One website was being attacked every minute. When a website is successfully hacked, hackers can steal company data, change the website interface, plant malicious code or direct users to phishing sites,” the report said.

CyStack research showed that  七0 per cent of the attacks were targeted at websites using popular open source WordPress CMS (content management system), followed by Joomla and DNN.

Vulnerabilities in websites using WordPress often ste妹妹ed from outdated plugins, themes or website versions, or users had downloaded plugins and themes from untrusted sources that had been installed with malicious code.

In addition, the Linux operating system and Apache web server were also the most targeted by hackers with  六 四. 八 per cent and  四 二. 四 per cent, respectively.

In the year to September, CyStack system recorded  四 五0,000 website attacks around the world, of which  八, 三 五 六 were made in Việt Nam. — VNS