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1512, 2022

Emergency Help for Fortinet Ransomware & Cyber Breach Recovery

By |December 15th, 2022|Alvaka Blog, Articles|Comments Off on Emergency Help for Fortinet Ransomware & Cyber Breach Recovery

FortiOS Ransomware and Cyber Breach Vulnerabilities are Back! Fortinet is again the target of hackers, ransomware hackers specifically. Fortinet’s big problem is a zero-day buffer overflow vulnerability in FortiOS. We have seen that it [...]

912, 2022

Alvaka is Named a 2022 Top Workplace for 2nd Year in a Row

By |December 9th, 2022|Alvaka Blog, Articles|Comments Off on Alvaka is Named a 2022 Top Workplace for 2nd Year in a Row

Orange County Register Names Alvaka a Winner of the Orange County Top Workplaces 2022 Award Irvine, California December 09, 2022 - For the second consecutive year, Alvaka is named a 2022 Top Workplace, an [...]

2111, 2022

Why Ransomware Targets Education and Healthcare Sectors

By |November 21st, 2022|Alvaka Blog, Ransomware, Security|Comments Off on Why Ransomware Targets Education and Healthcare Sectors

Nowadays, tech and ransomware go hand in hand. Hackers look for two characteristics when they scope out their next target: first, an organization or individual with valuable information and assets; and second, someone who [...]

2408, 2022

U.S. Department of State’s $10M Bounty on Conti Ransomware

By |August 24th, 2022|Alvaka Blog, Ransomware, Security|Comments Off on U.S. Department of State’s $10M Bounty on Conti Ransomware

The U.S. Department of State announced last week that it is offering a $10,000,000 bounty for information on the identification or location of five highly ranked members of Wizard Spider, the Conti ransomware syndicate. Since [...]

1908, 2022

OFAC Sanctions Cryptocurrency Mixer Tornado Cash

By |August 19th, 2022|Alvaka Blog, Security|Comments Off on OFAC Sanctions Cryptocurrency Mixer Tornado Cash

What is Tornado Cash? A virtual cryptocurrency mixer on the Ethereum blockchain, Tornado Cash was officially sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on August 8th, 2022. [...]