More than 2,500 websites with Vietnamese domains were attacked in the third quarter. (Photo: store.hp.com)
Hanoi (VNA) - More than2,500 websites with Vietnamese domains were attacked in the third quarter,meaning Vietnam stands in 10th in terms of the largest number ofcyber attacks in the world.
This number was tracked by the CyStack Attack Map system, developed by the Vietnam-basedcyber security platform Cystack. It detected 127,367 attacks on websitesaround the world in the last three months, down slightly compared to thesame period last year.
However, the number of attacks on Vietnamese websites increased by 113percent over a year earlier (from 1,183 to 2,523). The domain names on thereceiving end of the most malicious attempts were .com, .vn and .net.
“One website was being attacked every minute. When a websiteis successfully hacked, hackers can steal company data,change the website interface, plant malicious code ordirect users to phishing sites,” the report said.
CyStack research showed that 70 percent of the attacks were targeted atwebsites using popular open source WordPress CMS (content management system),followed by Joomla and DNN.
Vulnerabilities in websites using WordPress often stemmed from outdatedplugins, themes or website versions, or users had downloaded plugins andthemes from untrusted sources that had been installed with malicious code.
In addition, the Linux operating system and Apache web server were also themost targeted by hackers with 64.8 percent and 42.4 percent, respectively.
In the year to September, CyStack system recorded 450,000 website attacksaround the world, of which 8,356 were made in Vietnam./.
