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Building stronger supply chains through collaboration: A fireside chat   News

Oct 29, 2025 - Find out how to take action on your supply chain and third party risk by watching our fireside chat with industry cyber professionals.

Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System   Advisory

Aug 28, 2025 - This joint cyber security advisory gives vital insights on People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actors, how they gain and maintain persistent access, and the capabilities they have. It provides threat hunting guidance and mitigation strategies to help safeguard your networks.

Advisory 2020-009: Recommendations to mitigate APT actors targeting health sector and COVID-19 essential services   Advisory

May 8, 2020 - The ACSC recommends that organisations in the health sector implement the following cyber security mitigations:

Summary of Tradecraft Trends for 2019-20   Alert

May 20, 2020 - The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) investigated and responded to numerous cyber security incidents during 2019 and 2020 so far.

Use our new guidance to create and maintain a definitive view of your organisation’s Operational Technology (OT) architecture   News

Oct 28, 2025 - Apply the 5 key principles of this guidance to build a holistic understanding of your operational technology (OT) systems and design appropriate, effective cyber security controls.

APT40 Advisory   Advisory

Jul 9, 2024 - This advisory, authored by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre and international partners, outlines a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber group and their current threat to Australian networks.

Critical vulnerability discovered in HTTP.SYS in Microsoft Windows   Alert

May 13, 2021 - A remote code execution vulnerability could enable a malicious cyber actor to compromise vulnerable Microsoft Windows hosts. The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) strongly recommends applying available patches.

COVID-19 Malicious Scams - Threat Awareness and Guidance   Advisory

Mar 27, 2020 - The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) has produced a detailed report, including practical cyber security advice that organisations and individuals can follow to reduce the risk of harm.

Best practices for event logging and threat detection   Publication

Aug 22, 2024 - This publication defines a baseline for event logging best practices to mitigate cyber threats.

Active exploitation of vulnerable MobileIron products   Alert

Sep 18, 2020 - The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) is aware of active exploitation of vulnerabilities in multiple MobileIron products by malicious cyber actors, including sophisticated state-based actors.

Launch of the Annual Threat Report   News

Nov 4, 2022 - The Annual Cyber Threat Report is ACSC’s flagship unclassified publication. The Report provides an overview of key cyber threats impacting Australia, how the ACSC is responding to the threat environment, and crucial advice for Australian individuals and organisations to protect themselves online.

Joint Report on Publicly Available Hacking Tools   Reports and statistics

Oct 12, 2018 - This report is a collaborative research effort by the cyber security authorities of five nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and USA. It highlights the use of five publicly available tools, observed in recent cyber incidents around the world.

How to use the internet securely: A guide for seniors   Guidance

Oct 1, 2021 - Some basic cyber security practices that you can use to protect yourself when accessing the internet.

Translated information  

Apr 4, 2024 - We have developed easy-to-follow cybersecurity information and resources to support people from non-English speaking backgrounds to be more cyber secure.

Advisory 2020-008: Copy-paste compromises - tactics, techniques and procedures used to target multiple Australian networks   Advisory

Sep 16, 2020 - This advisory details the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) identified during the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) investigation of a cyber campaign targeting Australian networks. These TTPs are captured in the frame of tactics and techniques outlined in the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

People’s Republic of China-Linked Actors Compromise Routers and IoT Devices for Botnet Operations   Advisory

Sep 19, 2024 - Cyber actors may have used botnet to compromise thousands of Internet-connected devices.

Business Continuity in a Box   News

Nov 13, 2023 - The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), in collaboration with the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has published a new tool, Business Continuity in a Box, to help businesses continue basic operations during or after a cyber incident.

Limited use obligation is now law   News

Dec 10, 2024 - On 29 November 2024, the Intelligence Services and Other Legislation Amendment (Cyber Security) Act 2024 became law.

Ongoing active exploitation of SonicWall SSL VPNs in Australia (CVE-2024-40766)   Alert

Sep 10, 2025 - The Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD’s) Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is aware of ongoing active exploitation of a critical vulnerability in SonicWall SSL VPNs.

Glossary  

List of glossary terms used on cyber.gov.au website