August 9, 2025

The urgency to prepare for a post-quantum world is growing. The cryptographic systems that underpin today’s digital infrastructure, including RSA, ECDSA, and Diffie-Hellman, will be rendered insecure by advances in quantum computing. The challenge is not only technological, but strategic: how do organizations begin to prepare, without knowing exactly when the threat will fully materialize? […]

The attack happened at 3:17 AM on a Tuesday. A healthcare startup’s AWS root account fell to a sophisticated phishing campaign that bypassed their SMS-based MFA. Within hours, attackers had spun up cryptocurrency mining instances across multiple regions and exfiltrated patient data from their RDS databases. This scenario plays out more often than AWS customers