Stop VM-based attacks with Zero Trust policy

This report warns that attackers increasingly abuse local virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware, VirtualBox, etc.) to run concealed malicious virtual machines that evade host-based EDR and file scanners, enabling persistence, covert command-and-control, and ransomware operations; it advocates applying Zero Trust controls—blocking unapproved hypervisors, enforcing application allowlisting, ringfencing, storage and elevation controls, and hardening configurations—to prevent and mitigate VM-based attacks, and highlights ThreatLocker products as implementation options.