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A suspected Vietnamese-origin threat actor has been observed targeting victims in several Asian and Southeast Asian countries with malware designed to harvest valuable data since at least May...
A financial entity in Vietnam was the target of a previously undocumented threat actor called Lotus Bane that was first detected in March 2023. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB described the...
Facebook advertisers in Vietnam are the target of a previously unknown information stealer dubbed VietCredCare at least since August 2022. The malware is “notable for its ability to automatically...
Prime minister Pham Minh Chinh instructed the nation's Ministry of Public Security to collect the data in the form of iris scans, voice samples and actual DNA, in accordance with amendments to Vietnam's Law on Citizen Identification. Ammendments to the Law on Citizen Identification that allow collection of biometrics passed on November 27 of last year.
Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications has admitted the nation has a vast shortfall of infosec pros. Hải Anh, deputy head of Vietnam's Information Security Authority, an agency of the ministry, said data trading activities were typically conducted within closed social media groups.
Almost two million mobile phone subscribers in Vietnam are at risk of having their services severed, thanks to a new government policy that seeks to curb spam. Of 127 million mobile phones in use in Vietnam, 96 percent connect to three mobile operators: Vinaphone, Viettel and MobiFone.
Iran, Turkey and both North and South Korea are bases for nation-state cyber attacks, Microsoft has claimed - as well as old favourite Russia. "After Russia, the largest volume of attacks we observed came from North Korea, Iran and China; South Korea, Turkey and Vietnam were also active but represent much less volume," said MS in a post announcing its findings.
An advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting government and military entities in Vietnam has been discovered that delivered a remote-access tool for carrying out espionage operations, researchers said. Further analysis suggested that this campaign was conducted by a group related to a Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat known as Cycldek, according to Kaspersky researchers, who added that the group has been active since at least 2013.
Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new supply-chain attack targeting the Vietnam Government Certification Authority that compromised the agency's digital signature toolkit to install a backdoor on victim systems. Uncovered by Slovak internet security company ESET early this month, the "SignSight" attack involved modifying software installers hosted on the CA's website to insert a spyware tool called PhantomNet or Smanager.
Social media giant Facebook this week revealed that it has disrupted the activity of two groups of hackers - one operating from Vietnam and the other from Bangladesh. The groups, Facebook says, were engaging in cyber-espionage activities, attempting to compromise accounts to gain access to information of interest.