After that, other fanpages of VOV1, VOV2, VOV TV channel… also received hundreds of similar comments consecutively. Subjects used many different accounts to “review” on Google Maps to reduce the reputation of Radio Voice of Vietnam. Photo: VOV According to VOV, the reporters who made this series of articles were also subjected to a series of strange nicks sending abusive, insulting and threatening messages. Not stopping there, the target group also searched for the phone number and social network of the VOV.VN reporter’s wife or husband to terrorize them in the form of messages. On the morning of June 13, on a fanpage called “Steel Fan Sister Hang” posted the entire so-called “how” to hack the content management software (CMS) of VOV Electronic Newspaper. “From the morning of June 13, accessing the VOV.VN address was very difficult and intermittent. At 13:00 on the same day, VOV’s electronic newspaper was hacked, making it impossible for readers to access it for many hours after that,” VOV said. VOV Electronic Newspaper has also contacted functional units of the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Information and Communications to coordinate in solving and handling the violations of extremists when deliberately attacking the technical platforms of a company. national media. Previously, on June 12, 2021, VOV Electronic Newspaper published articles: “I can’t give myself the right to insult anyone online” and “Mrs Phuong Hang with deviant livestreams: It’s time to take action. strict reason” Talking to the press, the Department of Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention (A05) – Ministry of Public Security said that professional units are investigating and clarifying the group of attackers. VOV electronics. The Department of Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention (A05) said that it had previously received a dispatch from VOV and understood this issue. Currently, professional units are investigating and clarifying. A05 affirmed that this is the responsibility of the unit and investigated and clarified this issue.

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.