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Unlike WhatsApp and Signal, end-to-end encryption is not the default option for messages on the platform, and it’s difficult for lay users to manually encrypt each conversation they’d wish to protect, as Johns Hopkins University professor and cryptographer Matthew Green has written.

Ransomeware attackers can encrypt the hypervisor - locking up multiple systems and programs in one go.

LockBit specializes in using malicious software known as ransomware to encrypt files on its victims’ computers, then demanding payment to unlock the files.

“When the allegations about the NSA vacuuming up all of our information emerged in 2013, we began to encrypt everything online including our websites, chat applications, and phone apps,” Wisniewski told me.

It follows criticism from government and police after Meta started to encrypt Messenger chats by default.