Quantum Leap: Advanced Computing Is a Vulnerable Cyber Target

Researchers from Bitdefender and Transilvania Quantum will present findings that quantum computing platforms and software (including cloud-hosted QPUs and SDKs like Qiskit) have vulnerabilities and attack surfaces similar to classical systems; they categorize four attack paths (classic-to-quantum attacks, QPU manipulation, using quantum components to attack QPUs, and attacks on RSA-encrypted data), demonstrate adapted attack experiments, and warn providers to validate SDK sources, transpiled circuits, and prioritize error correction.