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A team of Viettel Cyber Security, a member of Viettel Group, won the Pwn2Own Toronto 2023, the world’s leading contest in cyber-attacks.

Data from the security firm Kaspersky shows that, in the first half of this year, cybercriminals have carried out 11,298,154 web attacks against small to medium-sized businesses in Southeast Asia, of which there are more than 2.07 million in Vietnam.

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Two Vietnamese experts from the Viettel Cyber Security Company under the the Military Industry-Telecoms Group (Viettel) - Ngo Anh Huy and Do Quang Thanh – have been honoured at the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2020 contest, reported NDO.

On the afternoon of September 29, General To Lam, Minister of Vietnamese Public Security had an online meeting with Minister of Communications and Information cum the Minister in charge of Cyber Security of Singapore S. Iswaran to discuss issues related to the cybersecurity strategies as well as the process of building and finalizing cybersecurity standards.

In order to implement the cooperative commitment between Vietnam and the Netherlands on strengthening cooperation in the field of cybersecurity, Vietnam Ministry of Public Security's Foreign Affairs Department co-ordinated with the Netherlands Embassy in Vietnam and the Delegation of the European Union to co-organize an online workshop of International Law on Cyberspace on August 27, 2020 in Hanoi.

Ex-officials have claimed that a cyber attack suspected to have been carried out by China against Australia could have been a revenge for the banning of Huawei from the nation’s 5G community.

 Vietnam's information system has been witnessing a decrease in cyber-attacks lately, with nearly 1500 attacks in the first five months of 2020.