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2004, 2023

Ransomware Attacks Saw Huge Increase in March 2023

April 20th, 2023|Categories: Alvaka Blog, Articles, Ransomware|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Ransomware Attacks Saw Huge Increase in March 2023

According to NCC Group's Global Threat Intelligence Team, ransomware attacks have seen a significant increase this year. In March 2023, ransomware attacks increased by over 90% compared to February and over 60% compared to March 2022. NCC Group stated that [...]

104, 2023

CISA’s Pilot Program Helps Protect Critical Infrastructure from Ransomware

April 1st, 2023|Categories: Alvaka Blog, Ransomware, Security, Vulnerability|Tags: , , |Comments Off on CISA’s Pilot Program Helps Protect Critical Infrastructure from Ransomware

Earlier this year, CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) launched a new program to help protect critical infrastructure institutions by safeguarding their information systems from ransomware cybercriminals. The two main purposes of this new program, called Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot [...]

2703, 2023

World Backup Day: Safeguard Enterprise Data with Effective Backup Strategies

March 27th, 2023|Categories: Alvaka Blog, Ransomware, Security|Tags: , , |Comments Off on World Backup Day: Safeguard Enterprise Data with Effective Backup Strategies

In honor of World Backup Day on March 31st, we encourage your organization to review and strengthen your data backup strategies. Ensuring that your data is securely backed up and reliably recoverable is crucial to your organization's continuity and [...]

2303, 2023

Protect Against Ransomware With Immutable Backups

March 23rd, 2023|Categories: Alvaka Blog, Disaster Recovery, Security|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Protect Against Ransomware With Immutable Backups

One of the most effective ways to protect against ransomware attacks is to have immutable backups. Immutable backups are backups that cannot be altered or deleted, even by users with administrative privileges. This means that if your system is [...]

2102, 2023

Microsoft Monitoring Over 100 Ransomware Threat Actors

February 21st, 2023|Categories: Alvaka Blog, Articles|Tags: , , |Comments Off on Microsoft Monitoring Over 100 Ransomware Threat Actors

Microsoft recently disclosed that they are monitoring over 100 different threat actors utilizing 50 unique ransomware families to attack businesses and organizations across the world. These attacks have been increasing in frequency, severity, and sophistication. The threat actors behind [...]

1602, 2023

Why Your Cybersecurity Strategy Must Include Multi-Factor Authentication

February 16th, 2023|Categories: Alvaka Blog, Security|Tags: , , , |Comments Off on Why Your Cybersecurity Strategy Must Include Multi-Factor Authentication

The cybersecurity industry is buried in unexplained and confusing terms and acronyms. Two important terms that everyone should know and understand are multi-factor authentication (MFA) and two-factor authentication (2FA). They are both security mechanisms designed to accurately identify a [...]