The Israeli cyber security company Check Point announces today (Wednesday) that its investigators have been following ads for the past month Of hackers who allegedly advertise “available vaccines against corona” of the leading companies in the field that have received regulatory approvals, as well as of 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 have been approved by the American and European authorities, andAn increase in the price of “vaccines” from $ 250-300 in early December to $ 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. ”