At the Smart Banking seminar on October 22, Deputy Governor Phạm Tiến Dũng said the banking system processes about 100 million payment transactions a day, worth 1.2 million billion VND. He pointed to cyberattacks that stayed inside bank systems for months undetected, until hundreds of abnormal transactions worth tens of billions of VND appeared overnight. He urged banks to invest seriously in security monitoring, covering early detection, rapid response and service recovery, rather than focusing only on defense, and the State Bank now requires separate transaction-monitoring units. At TPBank, General Director Nguyễn Hưng said 99.5% of transactions are digital, while noting that AI can also be exploited by attackers.
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