Covid-19 Vaccine Certificates For Sale on The Darkweb

Cybersecurity researchers say malicious actors appear to have accessed government computer systems to forge vaccine certificates.

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By The Physics arXiv Blog
Nov 29, 2021 5:00 PMNov 29, 2021 11:00 PM
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Covid-19 vaccination certificates are being sold illegally on the Darkweb. That’s the conclusion of a group of cybersecurity experts who have investigated the way vendors offer forged vaccine certificates online.

The researchers have even verified the forged certificates using national covid vaccine apps. This raises the possibility that forgers have gained access to the private keys that health care systems use to guarantee the authenticity of vaccine certificates in Europe and elsewhere in the world.

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