Impact of algorithms for factoring using elliptic curves over $\mathbb{Q}$
I don't think there's anything to worry about here. Remarks 4.2 and 4.3 in the second paper point out that these approaches need to first find a point on a curve with a very large conductor/discriminant, and that seems to be very hard. (Harder than factoring the integer using NFS.)

There are many ways to compute factorings and discrete logarithms where you first do some very hard number theoretic computations (e.g. related to an elliptic curve over the rationals), then easily factor or compute a d.log. I designed such an algorithm myself once, and it was utterly useless.