A major Vietnamese technology company was attacked by malware.

At an international security forum, information that Vietnam's CMC Corporation became a victim of ransomware appeared, causing much discussion. The attack was said to have been carried out by the Crypto24 group on April 12.

According to Hookphish, there are about 2 TB of data controlled, including token data, website data... The target domain name that was attacked is https://ca.cmc.vn/

Regarding the above incident, a representative of CMC Group confirmed the incident and said: "CMC recorded a small-scale service in the technical system showing signs of being intentionally attacked by ransomware. Thanks to the timely activation of the incident response process according to regulations, the service disruption to customers only occurred for a very short time and was restored immediately afterwards."

CMC Corporation confirmed being targeted by ransomware attack.

At present, the attacked service is operating stably, without affecting customers. CMC Group is working closely with the authorities to investigate and clarify the incident. After having an official conclusion and receiving approval from the competent authority.

Ransomware is spyware or extortion software, designed to encrypt data and demand a ransom to decrypt it. While other attacks only disrupt or stop the operations of organizations and businesses, ransomware operates in the form of demanding a ransom to decrypt data.

According to a report by the National Cyber ​​Security Association, 46.15% of agencies and businesses said they had been attacked at least once in the past year, of which 6.77% were attacked frequently.

According to the Department of Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention (A05) - Ministry of Public Security, there have been more than 74,000 cyber attack warnings from key units alone, including 83 targeted APT attack campaigns.

Chi Hieu

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