The biggest threat to Vietnamese Internet users comes mainly from malicious codes to extort, delete data, or mine virtual currency (Photo: ictnews.vn)Hanoi (VNA) - The Authority ofInformation Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications, hasforecast five major trends in network safety and security to watch in 2019.
These five trends include network attacks,especially malicious code attacks using artificial intelligence (AI); attackinge-commerce and financial-banking systems with the aim of stealing personalinformation and data from users; attacks on infrastructure, internet of things(IoT) equipment, smart urban areas, and taking advantage of these devices tocarry out network attacks; intentional network attacks on state agencies andorganisations in order to steal information and data; and the tendency tosmear, defame and spread malicious information against agencies, organisationsand individuals.
Commenting on Vietnam’s information securitythis year, Khong Huy Hung, CEO of the Vietnam Cyberspace Security TechnologyJSC (VNCS), emphasised the risks and challenges in ensuring informationsecurity and data security with the rapid increase of IoT devices.
According to Hung, with the explosion innumbers as well as variety, IoT devices have gradually changed the networkattack market when bringing a large amount of resources, leading to a conflictover the control of IoT networks worldwide with hacking organisations. Theexplosion of malicious code exploiting a wide-ranging IoT device will takeplace.
"In addition, malicious codes that use AIto carry out cyber-attack campaigns are also expected to increase," hesaid.
Earlier, at the end of December 2018, in thenetwork security report and 2019 trend forecast, Bkav experts predictedmalicious code using AI could appear in 2019, initially in the form of proof ofconcept (PoC) prototype.
However, Bkav experts also said that thebiggest threat to Vietnamese internet users came mainly from malicious code forextortion, to deleting data, mining virtual currency and advanced persistentthreat (APT).
These types of malware can combine manydifferent infection paths to maximise their spread, the most common being inexploiting software, operating systems and fake email vulnerabilities.
Additionally, the status of spam fraud onFacebook is also expected to worsen in 2019, therefore, social network usersneed to be more vigilant, Bkav experts recommended.-VNA
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