The world wants to get vaccinated - and hackers are celebrating: Check Point reveals that the Dark Web offers vaccines that have allegedly passed regulatory approvals • "This volume of ads has risen significantly" • And what happened when they placed an order?
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The Israeli cyber security company Check Point reports today (Wednesday) that its researchers have been following ads from hackers who allegedly publish "available vaccines against corona" from the leading companies in the field that have received regulatory approvals, as well as the "Chinese vaccine".
According to Check Point, a number of interesting trends have been observed in the past month, including a dramatic increase of about 400% in the number of ads compared to the beginning of December and after the vaccinations were approved by the American and European authorities, and an increase in "vaccines" from $ 250-300 in early December. $ 500 and even $ 1,000 in the last week.
A change in the volume of sales offers from the sale of a single "vaccine" to a more wholesale sale of "vaccines" (10,000 doses) was also identified.
The researchers of the Israeli security company even ordered one of these "vaccines" and as expected - after the purchase of the known vaccine disappeared (the communication was done through a deleted telegram account and so did the ad).
"Once the vaccines were about to be approved, we saw in Darknet the start of publications on 'available supply of vaccines for sale,'" says Oded Vanunu, head of the product weakness department at Check Point, which conducted the study. Noticeably as well.
As in any other area of supply and demand, there are those who try to take advantage of this growing interest in creating their own "black market" in an attempt to rake in personal profits. "