Cybercrime prevention needs to be intensified: Deputy Minister
Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang, Deputy Minister of Public Security and Chairman of the National Cybersecurity Association, emphasised the urgency of cybercrime prevention in today’s online internet community.
Lieutenant Luong Tam Quang, Deputy Minister of Public Security and Chairman of the National Cybersecurity Association (Photo: VietnamPlus)
Hanoi (VNA) – Senior Lꦇieutenant Geꩵneral Luong Tam Quang, Deputy Minister of Public Security and Chairman of the National Cybersecurity Association, emphasised the urgency of cybercrime prevention in today’s online internet community.
A workshop on preventing cyber fraud was held by the Ministry of Publish Security and the National Cybersecurity Association in Hanoi on May 13, in the context of complicated phishing, aiming at the appropriation of property.
The workshop aimed to make people aware of fraudulent acts of appropriating property and relevant provisions of law for people and businesses. It also served to strengthen the harmonious coordination between agencies, organisations, businesses, and people in the prevention of and combat against frauds in cyberspace.
This was also a forum and an opportunity for State management agencies, businesses, social organisations, and individuals to connect, discuss, and unify awareness and solutions on cyberspace for mutual development.
Addressing the event, Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang emphasised the urgency of organising the workshop, as cybercrime is becoming increasingly complex and changing rapidly to appropriate assets of organisations and citizens.
Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang speaks at the event. (Photo: VietnamPlus)
According to Quang, accounting for 57% of the total number of cybercrimes, online fraud has increased in scope and scale with sophisticated tricks which take advantage of new technologies, especially artificial intelligent (AI), costing trillions of USD each year.
In Vietnam in 2023, domestic and foreign cybercriminals are constantly changing methods, thoroughly taking advantage of new technologies to commit large-scale frauds, causing great economic damage and adversely affecting social order and the safety of people’s lives.
According to statistics of the Ministry of Public Security, in 2023, the ministry prosecuted 1,500 cases for cyber fraud, the total amount of money people have been defrauded was estimated at 10 trillion VND (394 million USD).
In the same year, the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) received nearly 17,400 reports on the cases of online fraud targeting Vietnamese internet users. Among them, the total amount of money scammed was recorded at more than 300 billion VND.
A representative from the MoIC acknowledged that victims have a tendency not to report the full amount of losses. Therefore, the reported figure of 300 billion VND does not fully reflect the losses of more than 17,400 cases of online fraud in 2023.
Delegates at the event: Photo (VietnamPlus)
At the event, Senior Lieutenant General Luong Tam Quang also stressed the rights and responsibilities of agencies, organisations, and individuals in the fight against cybercrime.
He also requested that agencies, ministries, departments, sectors, and experts focus on a number of contents. These include trends and obstacles in preventing cyber frauds, such as the legal basis and the involvement of State management agencies, enterprises, organisations, and individuals.
The workshop included two main sessions, with the plenary discussing efforts to prevent and combat cyber frauds and the thematic session on solutions to prevent cyber frauds./.
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