Postal Police: ” False ‘green passes on the clear and dark web, a constant and daily trend’ ‘

” There are areas of both the clear web and the dark web and also social channels, where fake or authentic green passes are offered for sale, which have been stolen from the legitimate owners. The trend is quite stable, news on the clear and dark web or telegram channels and websites that sell stolen green passes are on the agenda. For now it is the constant trend ”. Riccardo Croce, head of the National Cybercrime Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures of the Postal Police, explains this to Adnkronos. ” In the last case that came to light, that of the archive published on Emule, it was a free downloadable material ”, he adds. Behind this phenomenon, according to the head of Cnaipic, “there may be an ideological motive but not necessarily”. ” It is a feature of the web, the computer data ends up on the net and everyone can take them – he explains – In the sea magnum of the internet, you can always find everything for free. Today the object are the green passes but, for example on Emule, all types of content have always been conveyed, from films to songs covered by copyright ”. (continues) cases like Hitler green pass only abroad, in Italy no similar case ” The green passes that are found online, sometimes, as in the case of Emule and as happens in some areas of the dark web, can actually be authentic and valid ”, says Croce. ” These are those that are stolen without the consent of the legitimate owners and used to access the places where the certificate is required – he explains – In this case the ‘buyers’ hope to get away with no one checking the identity document ” . ” Other times, however, they are scams: especially when what is promised on the web is the production of a fake green pass in the name of the person who asks for it, then a real fake document certifying that the person has had the vaccine or the buffer and that they are then scams – he continues – In this case what happens is that you enter into negotiations with the sellers and incur the theft of personal data. You lose the money paid to obtain the certificate, which then does not arrive, and extortion attempts can also occur, because often other requests for money arrive behind the threat of disclosing personal data ”. As for the case of Adolf Hitler’s green pass, ” therefore of a green certificate generated from scratch, it is part of a foreign case study that Italy has not yet known ”, clarifies the Cnaipic manager. In any case, Croce concludes, ” despite several cases intercepted by investigative activities to combat the phenomenon, so far the public IT system for generating green passes, at least from the point of view of IT security, holds and has proven itself safe ”. (by Giorgia Sodaro)