Cyber attacks aiming at banking and e-wallet services increase in Lunar New Year (Photo: quantrimang.com) CyRadar JSC recently warned about two online attacks targeting the users of 27banks and e-wallets.
Duong Thanh Hai, a CyRadar expert, said the company’s monitoring systemrecently detected two IP addresses of a server used for hosting fraudulentwebsites.
At least 180 fake domain names pointed to these two server clusters from thebeginning of this year.
The fraudulent domain names mainly focus on impersonating 27 banks in Vietnam,along with popular e-wallets. In addition, there are a number of fraudulentdomains aimed at social networking users and gamers.
"Many websites which are still in the building process or cybercriminalswho just point domain names to the server and prepare for future fraudcampaigns have also been discovered," said the expert.
Previously, experts of the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) under theAuthority of Information Security, Ministry of Information and Communications,predicted online fraud would increase.
One of the reasons the experts made the prediction is because of theunpredictable development of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Taking advantage of this, bad actors have used the vast amount of informationrelated to vaccines, the responses of governments and organisations, and otherlong-term effects of the pandemic to carry out online attacks.
In addition, the trend of working online also increases the risk users could beexposed to cyber threats. In fact, taking advantage of the limited awareness ofmany users, phishing attacks account for the largest proportion of informationsystems in Vietnam in recent years besides deface and malware attacks.
The NCSC system recorded 5,168 attacks causing problems on information systemsin the country last year including 1,778 phishing attacks.
To prevent damage caused by phishing attacks, experts advise users not to clickon unusual links and check website addresses carefully before entering apassword.
Along with that, users also need to set up additional OTP codes for emailaccounts, social networks and bank accounts and security software to protect theircomputers and phones./.
VNA
