Nguyen Le Thanh, founder Verichains, including about craft “detective amount of” – those who trace the attack damage hundreds of millions of DOLLARS aimed at the floor transaction blockchain.
The end of year 2, exchanges Bybit hacker attacks, theft of money of equivalent of us $ 1.5 billion. Our team of engineers security companies Vietnam Verichains quickly fly to Dubai (UAE) support in the investigation. “I think I need to do something, if not a lot of people will be affected,” said Nguyen Thanh Le, founder Verichains, said.
After a day of work, the cause has been identified. Documents more than 28 page is engineer of Vietnam given is the earliest reports explain about the incident. It became important data to stakeholders and users to understand more limited misinformation can affect the money market numbers.
“They probably are the most knowledgeable in the world of network attacks. When know the group come from Vietnam, I really found surprising and interesting,” Ben Zhou, CEO of Bybit.
This is only one of many attacks targeted at industry blockchain that security companies Vietnam directly involved in the investigation and handling. Every life is a maze data, but hackers always leave traces, albeit small. The work of the investigator is to find out what happened, like detective flip back to the crime scene.
Verichains presence in most incidents the blockchain scale, from the hack $ 600 million of the BNB Chain Bridge up to the attack aimed at bridging Ronin makes Sky Mavis – unicorns technology Vietnam tottering. They are one of the few companies in Vietnam and in the world to provide investigation services blockchain in intensive levels.
Mr. Nguyen Le Thanh share: “our work is investigating the causes, find vulnerabilities, attackers advantage, troubleshooting, working with authorities in various countries, then support unit under attack in ensuring the system more safe”.
Blockchain technology is promoted with the ability to privacy, but the fact is targeted favorite of hackers. In the year 2024, about 2.2 billion stolen from our floor number. Also the first 6 months of 2025, the damage from the hack was up $ 2 billion, with the largest cases aimed at the floor Bybit.
According to him, this makes the blockchain “is whitewash”. In the majority of the hacks, the cause lies not in core technology, which comes from the auxiliary components, the factors that “no scatter” as human, machine, home, purse storage, apps on your phone, computer. The project, the amount of the holding of assets worth billions of DOLLARS, not other banks and financial institutions. This is young company, quick success, but not enough maturity, lack of experience, safety information, leading to an attack.
In that context, the role of network security engineers are very big. They are often invited to participate in analysis after the incident took place, such as reviewing the source code, tracking cash flow in order to determine the method of attack and offer solutions to prevent the risk of recurrence.
“When you find out the cause of a service, we will see there are other projects together on the platform, blockchain and general use the math library is error to warning,” he said. Thanks to the capacity security is proven over many years, partner of Verichains mainly investment funds and the trading floor, the place holds billions of DOLLARS in asset number.
Manpower rare global market
Who do “detective amount of” usually divided into two arrays. The first group to do the audit (audit) smart contract – work popular, can follow the procedure available. Group Monday is manpower intensive, and understand system as large as exchanges, asset management of the fund.
According to him, security sector blockchain manpower is scarce due to demanding. With a professional group, they must not only be knowledgeable network security, traditional but also to know the technology, blockchain, have knowledge of risk management services, financial and learn about cryptography.
Due to the need to possess more knowledge ranging expertise of security blockchain quite less. 't have exact numbers, founder Verichains rating number of people who do security blockchain on a whole array of safety information, the percentage is very low, even only a small group.
Another feature is the demand the market has a cyclical nature, according to wave investments crypto. When the amount of the ascent, appearing in many projects, the demand for information security increases. But when the market goes down, the number of projects less than demand also decreases.
However, in the long term, the industry asset number is forecast to continue to grow. Those who pursue this industry often have good income, especially when working directly with the exchanges or financial institutions globally.
“Vietnamese engineers can serve global demand. Just prove capacity, customers will look to”, he said.
At the event, GM Vietnam day 1-2/8 in Hanoi, mr. Vu Ngoc Son, Chief technology – Security Association National network, recognizing the due holding of large fortune, the coin trading hours of this the same with the bank, but do not comply with the provisions commonly found of a traditional bank. It raises challenges about security, but also an opportunity for Vietnamese engineers.
According to him, security engineer, Vietnam has the advantage of being hard-working, persevering, especially when reading source code, which is very long from which to find the error. The big flaw blockchain related to logic, mathematics, should the profession “detective amount of” suitable capacity of the Vietnamese people.
“Unlike many countries, we still like mathematics, the study of logic,” mr. Son said. “Vietnam has the opportunity to become a powerhouse in the field of security blockchain if there is investment mechanism, appropriate incentives”.
The advantages of this here will be specific culture further by the introduction of the new policy. Law, Industry, digital technology, is passed by congress July 6 and with effect from the year 2026, I spent a clause on human resources development. Accordingly, The state will promote training, retraining and refresher on digital technology in the education system, financial support for students through scholarships, credit incentives and subsidies activities. The law also oriented investment facilities for training and developing online learning platform open and the training model flexible matching switch numbers.
Frame specific policies, plus the available capacity of logical thinking, math is the foundation for Vietnam to become the place of supply of manpower, not just the field of security blockchain but also for the technology industry, among others.
Source: vnexpress.net