At noon on the same day, discuss with Newspaper Workers, A leader of the Department of Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention (A05 – Ministry of Public Security) said that the unit has received an official dispatch from the Voice of Vietnam Electronic Newspaper. Currently, the Department of Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention and a number of professional units of the Ministry of Public Security have investigated and clarified. Website VOV Newspaper is not accessible at the time – Photo: Screenshot Like Newspaper Laborer It was reported that from the evening of June 12, the access to Vov.vn electronic newspaper had difficulties, the transmission line was slow. By 12 o’clock on June 13, readers could not access the Vov.vn link at all. According to the technical department of the Voice of Vietnam Electronic Newspaper, this is the result of a denial of service (DDoS) attack that overflows the bandwidth, making access to the newspaper crippled. At the same time, the fanpage of this newspaper also received tens of thousands of negative and offensive comments. The agency has been in contact with Google and Facebook to handle the related issues. A representative of the Voice of Vietnam Electronic Newspaper also said that the attack on the newspaper affected the operation of the editorial office, affecting readers’ access to information. The Voice of Vietnam has sent a dispatch to the relevant authorities to request a settlement, in which it is requested that the Ministry of Public Security search for the perpetrators of the online newspaper attack. Online newspaper Voice of Vietnam (Vov.vn) has had many technical solutions to fix the problem and access normally from the evening of June 13.

A leader of the Department of Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention (Ministry of Public Security) also confirmed that he had received an official letter from VOV. Currently, the Department of Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention and a number of professional units of the Ministry of Public Security have investigated and clarified. In addition, the Cyber ​​Emergency Response Center (VNCERT) and network operators also participate in supporting and solving problems. At the time of the cyber attack, readers could not access the website of VOV newspaper. Photo: VOV. Exchange with Zing , a representative of VOV’s technical department said that cyberattacks on the agency’s resource system began on June 12. At about 13:00 on June 13, the bandwidth system was overloaded, suspected of being attacked by a denial of service (DDoS). On the morning of June 14, the administrator continued to record a new attack that caused the bandwidth of the system and the website to be overloaded. This is the first time this newspaper has been attacked by DDoS. In addition to the above attacks, the VOV side also believes that the person behind the attacks also discredits the stars of the VOV electronic newspaper on Google or repeatedly makes offensive and threatening comments on the newspaper’s fanpage. The VOV side is reviewing and detecting malicious code in the system, and at the same time limiting the consequences of cyberattacks, calculating damage to coordinate with authorities to solve.