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Vietnam has the potential to become a mid-level cybercrime (tội phạm mạng) hub (trung tâm), according to sociologist Dr Jonathan Lusthaus, who's been studying cybercrime globally (trên toàn cầu) for more than seven years.

Lusthaus is director of the Human Cybercriminal Project at the University of Oxford, and an adjunct associate professor at University of New South Wales Canberra Cyber.

Vietnam has a "very good tradition of hacking" as well as other "technical pursuits", Lusthaus told ZDNet on Monday.

"If you look at other parts of South-East Asia, I don't think you always see that same level of interest in technology," he said.

Vietnam's economy is growing more than 6% per annum, a figure that's expected to trend upwards of 6.5% through 2020. Money attracts crime (tội phạm) and encourages cyber espionage (gián điệp mạng).

Cybersecurity firms have already seen a rise of offensive cyber activity from Vietnam through 2018, including the rise of threat groups affiliated with, or even part of, the Vietnamese government.