According to a report by global cybersecurity company Kaspersky, released here by mass media, this Asian nation received almost more than three million malicious e-mails, followed by Malaysia with 2.36 million, Japan (1.86 million), Indonesia (1.80 million), and China’s Taiwan (1.45 million).

The five economies received 61.1 percent of the total spam e-mails circulating across the Asia-Pacific region, which accounted for almost 24 percent of the total global spam e-mails detected this year, the source stated.

Members of Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team indicated that these e-mails were sent en masse mainly by cybercriminals to make a financial gain.

In early July, Vietnam’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) reported that this nation faces an average of more than 256 cyber-attacks on its domestic information systems every week.

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