Coinfirm: Criminals sell stolen vaccines from the Covid-19 for cryptocurrencies-Bits Media.

According to the analytical company Coinfirm, criminals sell fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates and stolen vaccines for cryptocurrencies on darknet markets.

According to a report from Coinfirm, cryptocurrencies BTC, ETH, DASH, LTC, TRX, XMR and ZEC were chosen to accept payments either because of their widespread distribution in the crypto acting market, or because of anonymity, provided by confidential coins. One of the suppliers of Darknet-Covid-19 Vaccine Shop-looks like, Sells vaccines Astrazeneca, Pfizer-BionTech, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and satellite V wholesale.

According to the report, some suppliers of Darkneta markets from the USA, Russia and other countries also sell fake certificates of vaccination from Covid-19, which are produced thanks to "corruption in the healthcare sector". Sellers promise not only to provide a vaccination document, but also enter the buyer's data to national healthcare systems, where in some cases the signatures of doctors are used. Moreover, in most countries, including Russia, Falsification and the use of fake documents is a criminal offense.

One of the addresses of bitcoin, identified Coinfirm as a recipient of funds for fake vaccination certificates, led to the exchange registered in Hong Kong, serving "clients from Eastern Europe". Coinfirm mentions the long -navigated problem of the lack of KYC checks at many trading cryptocurrency sites, which allows criminals to “easily” cash out the cryptocurrency obtained illegally.

"It is for these reasons that each exchange and trading platform are obliged to introduce a strict KYC policy", - Analysts say.

Recall, that at the beginning of this year, the Israeli Information Security company Check Point found many fraudulent offers of the Covid-19 vaccine for bitcoins in the darknet.