The Growing Impact Of AI And Quantum On Cybersecurity

06 Aug The Growing Impact Of AI And Quantum On Cybersecurity

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine

Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 6, 2025

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The amalgamation of artificial intelligence (AI) with quantum computing will transform existing computational paradigms, heralding a promising future, but with risks, writes Chuck Brooks in a Forbes article.

While AI and machine learning (ML) are crucial tools for cyber defense, they may also provide asymmetrical tools for adversarial hackers. Their favored techniques include automated phishing schemes that replicate human actions, with malware that autonomously alters itself to mislead or compromise cybersecurity frameworks and applications.

As per the latest findings of ISACA’s worldwide Quantum Computing Pulse Poll, even while 62 percent of cybersecurity and technology experts fear that quantum computing will crack current Internet encryption, just 5 percent think that it is a top concern for their near future and just 5 percent have a clear plan for quantum computing.

Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that the cost of cybercrime will reach $10.5 trillion USD by the end of this year, notes Brooks, a cybersecurity and emerging tech thought leader. Those figures could pale in comparison to the costs related to Q-Day, the day, also known as Y2Q, when cryptanalytically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) may be able to decrypt the world’s secrets.

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