European Cybercrime Centre

He says that EU law enforcement agency Europol published not one but two reports on Wednesday urging organizations and policymakers and the cryptocurrency industry as a whole to begin preparing now for quantum computers capable of breaking widely used encryption.

The first, entitled Quantum Computing and Cryptocurrencies, produced by Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, identifies cryptocurrency wallets as the primary point of exposure to quantum threats.

Wallets rely on a pair of keys, a private key that authorizes transactions and a public key the network uses to verify them.

A sufficiently powered quantum computer could derive a private key from an exposed public key, letting an attacker spend funds without authorization.

We have invited two experts who understand this ever-changing landscape better than anyone.

Our first expert is the head of Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, also known as EC3.

We are delighted to have Edvardas Schilleres join us.

The European Cybercrime Centre was set up in 2013 to strengthen law enforcement response to cybercrime in the EU.

Since then, EC3 has become a major hub for coordinating the efforts of EU member states law enforcement agencies and has been supporting countless investigations and operations that have disrupted the cyber crime ecosystem.

Before becoming head of EC3, Ed Vadas was Deputy Police Commissioner General of the Lithuanian Police.

Our second guest is ENISA's Head of Sector for Threat Analysis Services, Jamila Boutemeur, who is one of the authors of the 2026 ENISA Threat Landscape.

Jamila specializes in state-aligned activities.

It was the first confirmed recovery in a case that had sat unresolved for nearly a decade.

CAB confirmed in a statement to the Irish Times that the recovery had been achieved with support from Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, which had provided what the statement described as highly complex technical expertise and decryption resources gathered through operational meetings hosted at Europol's headquarters in The Hague.

That word, decryption, was noted by more than one commentator at the time.

it implies something more than a simple handover or a lucky guess.