Vaccination cards and passes are increasingly being required to give people access to travel, events and even to their workplaces globally. “Because of this trend, opportunistic cybercriminals have begun selling counterfeit vaccine passports on the black market. Demand for fake vaccination cards appears to be on the rise in South Africa, with several reports noting incidents in which people request fake vaccination cards in order to be able to travel, and even cases in which pharmacy staff have been caught issuing fake vaccine cards. “With growing demand and an emerging black market, FortiGuard Labs has now begun to encounter offers of fake vaccine passports as lures in email scams. FortiGuard Labs has also found various markets on the dark web offering fake vaccine passports.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 16, 2021 08:50 UTC