Kuala Lampur, Feb. 2 -- Five hundred thousand malware a day in 2025 is a staggering number.

That is the scale of the threat reported by Channel News Asia and Kaspersky Security Report, and they serve a crucial warning of how criminal syndicates have thrived in the cyberworld.

If 500,000 malware a day can be generated, packaged, and pushed from a various national ecosystems, especially Vietnam, where coding is taught early, the implications for regional and global security are profound.

According to the reports in 2023 and 2025 respectively, malware operations linked to Vietnam have developed the capability to attempt daily uploads of huge magnitude into mainstream digital ecosystems, including the Apple App Store and the Google Play St...