Number of malware victims skyrockets: Kaspersky

The data was contained in a report released at a meeting hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communications in Hanoi Thursday.

Head of the ministry’s information security department, Le Van Tuan, said in the first half of the year Viettel Cyber Security recorded 46 major cases of data leak with 12.3 gigabytes of source code exposed.

Viettel Cyber Security is a unit of state-owned telecom giant Viettel.

"Data is being sold publicly in an organized manner, with organizations and businesses participating in the transactions," Tuan said.

In June alone his department recorded over 90,000 cybersecurity holes and weaknesses at organizations, he said.

In the first six months it had to deal with 60% more major cybersecurity cases than in the same period last year, he said.

Genie Sugene Gan, head of government affairs & public policy at Kaspersky, said as companies transform digitally, they come into contact with each other more frequently, making them more exposed to cybersecurity risks.