Prepare the total force to respond to DDoS attacks in 2014

Mr. Vu Quoc Khanh, Director of Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Center (VNCERT) said in 2014, the risk of hacker attacks by denial of service (DDoS) is not ruled out.

Mr. Vu Quoc Khanh, Director of Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Center (VNCERT) said in 2014, the risk of hacker attacks by denial of service (DDoS) is not ruled out.

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On the sidelines of the 2014 Conference on Deployment of the Ministry of Information and Communications, Mr. Khanh affirmed that Vietnam must prepare the total force of both policies and technical measures to organize dealing with DDoS risk.

Remember, in 2012, a series of big newspapers like Tuoitre, VietNamNet, Dantri were attacked with high intensity, causing these websites to be paralyzed.

Common tasks that botnet implementations include mass spamming, DDoS attacks and mass personal information spying.

Recently, Mr. Khanh once said that at least 500,000-1,000,000 computers in Vietnam are infected with malicious code and located in global botnets.

The latest report from security vendor Kaspersky in Vietnam announced on December 26 also showed that, in addition to computers, mobile devices are also a powerful tool.

' Mobile botnets really bring a significant advantage by mobile phones, tablets are rarely powered off, making botnet more reliable because most access is always available and ready to wait for instructions. New hacker.

In addition, attack operations do not require performance and are made easy on smartphones, 'the Kaspersky report said.

The security firm offers two names, MTK and Opfake, botnet, claiming it is the clearest evidence that mobile botnets are a regular practice for hacker financial profit purposes.

Identifying the situation of the rescue in Vietnam, Mr. Khanh said, currently, Vietnam's emergency computer incident coordination network has linked more than 100 member units, including Internet providers, management unit.

This network regularly shares information and exercises to prevent ghost computer networks (botnets) and DDoS attacks .

These efforts are an important basis for early detection of signs of attacks, timely closure of attack addresses.

In addition, VNCERT also actively cooperates with Centers to rescue emergency incidents of other countries to combat cross-border attacks.

Update 25 May 2019
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