VietnamExpress-Oct 8
Some one-third of computers in Vietnam are infected by malware, the National Cyber Security Center has warned following a computer screening campaign.The campaign, which screened over 300,000 computers over three weeks from mid-September, found 100,000 of them infected.
Out of around 16 million IPv4 addresses in Vietnam, three million are blacklisted by multiple international organizations and two million others are frequently found in major botnet networks, a spokesperson for the Authority of Information Security, which oversees the NCSC, said. A botnet is a network of Internet-connected devices, each with software running automated tasks on the Internet called bots. Botnets can be used to steal data, send spam or get unauthorized access. Nguyen Ngoc Thang, a specialist with the NCSC’s R&D department, said the number of malware infection discovered by the campaign was “too small” as reports have shown that as of last year, over 85 million computers in Vietnam have already been infected by malware.
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