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Vietnam was subject to 134,375 cyber attacks in 2016, up more than four times from the previous year, according to the national center for computer emergency response VNCERT.
Experts said the situation will remain “complicated” this year.
Nguyen Huy Dung, deputy head of the Information Security Department at the information ministry, said attacks will target important control systems including transport infrastructure, finance and banking.
There will also be an increasing risk of attacks through common household equipment such as televisions and refrigerators connected to wireless internet.
Fraudulent activity on social networks will also be common, Dung said.
HCM City Department of Information and Communication has reported that computers at some agencies are still infected with WannaCry ransomware.
On May 17, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Minh Hong met with Mr. Michael Michalak, Senior Vice President of US-ASEAN Business Council.
The spread of WannaCry ransomware has been wreaking havoc across the world since May 12, and several Vietnamese businesses and agencies are advised to take cautions.
A cyber training platform, purportedly the first of its kind in Vietnam, was launched November 3 by a cyber security training institute in Ho Chi Minh City.
