Viettel Wins at World’s Leading Cyber-Attack Contest

The Viettel team ranks first in the leaderboard. Photo: VGP/PD

According to the results, the Viettel team, which consists of 16 members, won the Master of Pwn Award with 30 points, ranking in first place in the leaderboard. They also received a cash prize of US$180,000, VOV reported.

Viettel has participated in the competition for six years and recorded several achievements. This comes after IT experts of Viettel won at Pwn2Own Tokyo 2020, Pwn2Own Vancouver 2021, and Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022.

The annual Pwn2Own represents the world's largest and most prestigious cyber-attack competition and is sponsored by security firm TrendMicro and has held by the Zero Day Initiative since 2007. Famous technology companies bring their products as targets for hackers to showcase their skills to attack and exploit the software or equipment, through which manufacturers can immediately correct errors and then improve security.

The Viettel team, which consists of 16 members, won the Master of Pwn Award with 30 points. Photo: VGP/PD

Viettel Cyber Security now has over 400 high-quality IT experts, many of whom have been recognized at international network security ranking and prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, Bugcrowd, and Google.

More than 77,000 computers in Vietnam have suffered data encryption between December 2022 and May 2023, according to Bkav – a leading Vietnamese technology corporation that specializes in cyber security and software.

The corporation’s Technical Support Centre has also received hundreds of calls, asking for assistance in handling data encryption malware, VietnamPlus said.

Recently, its virus monitoring system detected a data-encrypting malicious code called “STOP/DJVU” or “FARGO3” that targets businesses and units using accounting data management software to steal data. According to statistics, more than 260 servers have been compromised from more than 6,000 different Internet Protocols (IPs).

More than 77,000 computers in Vietnam have suffered data encryption between December 2022 and May 2023. Photo: Internet

Notably, out of hundreds of cases contacting Bkav for help, more than 50% do not use anti-virus software, or install computer protection applications or software that are not strong enough. In particular, many units have a large volume of important data but use free anti-virus software, so the protection effect is not guaranteed.

To avoid data encryption attacks, experts recommend that users and computer system administration teams regularly back up (backup) important data, proactively install and update copyrighted anti-virus and malicious code detection software for better protection./.

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