Threats

Threats7 Oct 2026Northeast Times

Europol: crypto wallets with exposed public keys are the main quantum target (opens the original in a new tab: Northeast Times)

Europol's Cybercrime Centre says wallets whose public keys are already visible on-chain are the primary point of exposure, while Bitcoin's SHA-256 hashing is considered largely quantum-resistant.

#Europol
#Cryptocurrency
#Signatures

Threats7 Oct 2026Europol

Europol report rates 'harvest now, decrypt later' risk by sector and protocol (opens the original in a new tab: Europol)

Produced with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the report looks at exposure in TLS, SSH and OpenPGP, rates governments as high risk, and found no clear evidence of large-scale harvesting yet.

#Europol
#HNDL
#TLS
#SSH