HANOI, April 19 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam is one of the nations with the highest level of cyber insecurity, according to the country's Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam.
Vietnam leads the world in terms of malware infection rate via multimedia devices and ranks 10th via online platforms, local online newspaper Vietnam Economic Times quoted Dam as saying Wednesday.
Regarding the number of spam mails, Vietnam has been in the world's top-three countries in recent years, after the United States and China.
However, Vietnam tops the list when it comes to the per capita ratio due to its relatively smaller population size.
In 2015, there was a total of 8.19 billion cyber attacks by harmful software, causing a loss of some 500 billion U.S. dollars, Dam said.
Viewing cyber attack as a detrimental threat to the country's economy and security, the Vietnamese deputy prime minister proposed that the legal framework should be further developed alongside with improving people's awareness of the issue.
