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 by the National Institute of Standards and...
