Bkav recommends that all computer users to immediately install updates and security patches and hotfixes via Windows Update on Bkav.com.vn/Tool/CheckWanCry.exe.
Before, the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT), under the Ministry of Information and Communications, has issued warnings as well as offered protection measures to all users to guard against the ransomware and its variations, which target Microsoft Windows - an operating system that is widely used in Vietnam, especially the outdated Windows XP.
Those who use Bkav Pro or Bkav Endpoint can operate directly because Tool automatically protect. Bkav’s free device will help users to check whether their computer have been affected by WannaCrypt which is extremely dangerous as it is capable of stealing information and decrypting the entire system that has been infected.
WannaCrypt was used in a large Cyber-attack and has since infected more than 230,000 Windows PCs in 150 countries now including the Southeast Asian country. WannaCrypt first gains access to the computer system via an email attachment and thereafter can spread rapidly through LAN.
The ransomware can encrypt your systems hard disk and attempts to exploit the SMB vulnerability to spread to random computers on the Internet via TCP port and between computers on the same network.
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Experts estimate that 66 percent of computers in Vietnam have been infected with malware, which is a “relatively high” percentage, said Nguyen Huy Dung, deputy head of the Information Security Department.
On 21st May 2015 in Hanoi, Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) is awarded the second PCI DSS certificate by Control Case (India) and becomes the first Bank in Vietnam receiving the second PCI DSS from Control Case.
The Bank for Foreign Trade of Viet Nam (Vietcombank) was given the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certificate, the internationally acclaimed standard for information security management, in Ha Noi on December 12.
