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Covid tests, vaccine passports easily available on Dark Web

05:36 am on 30 March 2021

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A cyber security expert says it's concerningly easy to obtain fake Covid-19 test results and vaccine passports on the Dark Web. While there's not evidence that New Zealanders or people heading here have obtained the forged documents, it is certainly a topic under discussion on Kiwi dark web forums. Joerg Buss from New Zealand AI and cybersecurity firm Darkscope International spoke to our producer Matthew Theunissen, who started by asking how prevelant this sort of material is on the Dark Web.