The cryptocurrency sector faces an existential threat on two fronts: none of the 2,138 web applications and 146 mobile apps tested by ImmuniWeb support post-quantum encryption, and more than 7.8 million user records are already circulating on the dark web. As adversaries hoard encrypted data for future “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” exploits, the industry’s failure to adopt NIST’s Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) standard signals a looming crisis. Without action, encrypted transactions could be laid bare … More
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