Cybercriminals Are Now Coming After Freight Cargo. And They’re Doing a Great Job.
Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting freight cargo by impersonating legitimate businesses and exploiting vulnerabilities in logistics systems. Using tactics like spoofed emails and remote monitoring software, they hijack high-value shipments and reroute them for illegal resale. The FBI reports a significant rise in cargo theft, with losses reaching $725 million in 2025 across the United States and Canada.
- ▪Cybercriminals are using spoofed emails, fake URLs, and compromised accounts to hijack freight and steal high-value shipments.
- ▪Hackers infiltrate logistics systems with remote monitoring and management (RMM) applications to gain control over carrier operations.
- ▪In 2025, cargo theft losses in the U.S. and Canada reached $725 million, a 60% increase from the previous year.
- ▪The average value per theft rose to $273,990, reflecting a shift toward more selective, high-value targets.
- ▪In May 2025, federal authorities arrested 13 members of an Armenian crime ring linked to $83 million in Amazon cargo thefts.
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Whether it’s deepfake CEO impersonations, or sophisticated voice cloning, cyber fraud online has come a long, long way from the days of Nigerian prince emails of yesteryear. But instead of your credit card details, they’re increasingly going after truckloads of expensive high-value goods this time.According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cyber criminals are now impersonating legitimate businesses to hijack freight, steal high-value shipments, and reroute deliveries, causing a surge of what they call strategic cargo theft.Since at least 2024, cyber threat actors have gained unauthorized access to the computer systems of brokers and carriers, generally via techniques like spoofed emails, fake URLs, and compromised carrier accounts.
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