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On July 1, the European Digital Certificate or Covid passport came into force, with

more than 3 million of these documents issued in Spain

by the autonomous communities and the Ministry of Health. Through a QR code, it certifies that the holder has received the complete vaccination schedule against covid-19, authorized by the European agency EMA or by the WHO, is immunized for having been infected in the past and having generated antibodies or, in instead it has a

negative PCR

or antigen test from the last 48 or 72 hours.

To obtain this certificate, you must access the health portals of the autonomous community where you are registered or, in person, at the primary care centers.

It

can

also

be obtained completely telematically

on the website of the Ministry of Health.

Accessing with a digital certificate, validated by the competent authorities, installed on the computer, or through the certificate with the Cl @ ave Signature or Self-Signature program.

This simple, free, universal, safe and reliable tool, as presented by the Ministry of Health, seeks to

facilitate free movement in EU territory

, but despite the benefits it seems to offer, it is not without risks, or more well, cyber risks.

Threats

According to several

digital security

experts

, illegal sale, counterfeiting, as well as phishing campaigns, are just some of the threats that can occur since the entry into force of this document.

From the EFE agency they have contacted different experts in cybersecurity and data protection, to focus on the different scams that can take place in the context of the Covid passport.

The director of Business Development of the company, Fabián Torres, has assured that in recent months,

both identity theft

and false PCR

have proliferated

to be able to travel from one country to another, within the EU.

That is why he is convinced that counterfeits of the QR, of the European Digital Certificate will also be carried out.

Likewise, phishing using the Covid passport as a context will be something that will begin to appear more frequently, thus increasing fraudulent communications from alleged ministries,

agencies or airlines

requesting personal data, said Nuria Andrés, cybersecurity strategist at Proofpoint. .

Black market

In the Deep and dark web, you can already find false passports and vaccines, as well as data from thousands of immunized people, according to these experts.

Andrés assures that last year, they detected 300 phishing campaigns, in which fraudulent websites copied the websites of different companies and governments with enough accuracy, to obtain user data.

Everything indicates that from now on,

efforts will focus on imitating the theme of vaccines against Covid-19

.

For his part, the technical director of the Check Point Software company for Spain and Portugal, Eusebio Nieva, has pointed out how domains on the Internet have multiplied by 25%, which are related to Covid passports, which also have their own mobile app.

In this way, cybercriminals make the user believe that the QR belongs to an official document, then, when scanning it, they may be accessing

malicious addresses

, whose only function is to steal the person's credentials, or access sensitive data from the terminal, like bank accounts.

How to avoid counterfeits and scams

The information associated with this European document, according to Torres, must be truthful and above all verifiable.

In addition, the verification of the same must have strong measures that prevent its falsification.

Similarly, the ideal would be for mobile devices to have programs that ensure the confidential storage of this certificate.

Likewise, the physical format is still the safest way to have a Covid passport, yes, you are exposed to losing it at the worst time, traveling or in the middle of an airport.

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