In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe

In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files—making, or at least claiming, that it is protected against attacks by quantum computers. Kyber, as the ransomware is called, has been around since at least last September and quickly attracted attention for the claim that it used ML-KEM, short for Module Lattice-based Key Encapsulation Mechanism and is a standard shepherded …

Kyber Ransomware’s Quantum Encryption Gambit: Criminals Beat Enterprises to Post-Quantum Defenses

A new ransomware strain named Kyber has crossed a line no other has. It deploys post-quantum cryptography in live attacks. Security researchers at Rapid7 confirmed this week that the group’s Windows variant wraps its AES-256 file-encryption keys with ML-KEM1024, the strongest version of NIST’s freshly standardized key-encapsulation mechanism. Quantum computers? No threat here. But victims don’t know that. And that’s the point. Kyber emerged last…