黑网市场和COVID-19:疫苗 (Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: The vaccines)

The ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaign has so far targeted less than 3% of the world population, and even in countries where the campaign has started many citizens will not receive their doses for many months. There is clear evidence that previous shortages of COVID-19 related goods (e.g., masks and COVID-19 tests) and services pushed customers, and vendors, towards illicit online trade occurring on dark web marketplaces. Is this happening also with vaccines? Here, we report on our effort to continuously monitor 102 dark web marketplaces. By February 26, we found 33 listings offering a COVID-19 vaccine, seven of which offering officially approved vaccines. The number of currently active listings is 11, including one listing selling the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, one listing the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, and 9 listings selling vaccines of unspecified type. Illicit trade of uncertified COVID-19 vaccines poses a concrete threat to public health and risks to undermine public confidence towards vaccination.

翻译：迄今为止,正在开展的COVID-19疫苗接种运动的对象是不到世界人口的3%,甚至在开展该运动的国家里,许多公民在好几个月内得不到剂量;有明显证据表明,过去与COVID-19有关的商品(例如面具和COVID-19测试)和服务短缺,迫使客户和供应商在黑暗的网络市场上进行非法在线交易;这是否也与疫苗有关?在这里,我们报告我们为持续监测102个黑暗的网络市场所作的努力;到2月26日,我们发现33份清单提供了COVID-19疫苗,其中7份提供了官方批准的疫苗;目前活跃的清单上有11份,其中包括一份清单出售Pfizer/BioNTEch疫苗,一份清单列出AstraZeneca/Oxford疫苗,9份清单列出出售未说明型疫苗。未经认证的COVID-19疫苗的非法贸易对公众健康构成具体威胁,并有风险破坏公众对接种疫苗的信心。