ACSC's Guide To Protecting Against Rising Ransomware Threats

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns of increasing ransomware activity and outlines eight key mitigation steps—including timely patching, regular backups, access controls, up-to-date antivirus, multi-factor authentication, macro restrictions, phishing awareness, and consideration of cloud services—and cites incidents where attackers encrypted virtual machine files on host servers to illustrate the impact and need for stronger host/server protections.