This spring, the FBI published a Public Service Announcement warning the public of cyber threat actors increasingly using sophisticated, cyber-enabled tactics to impersonate legitimate businesses to remotely hijack freight, steal high-value shipments, and reroute deliveries,
👁 Cargo theft steps. 1: Cyber threat actor CTA) compromises broker load board accounts. 2: CTA posts fake loads online. 3: Carriers bid on fake loads, CTA responds with malicious link to a Remote Monitor and Managing (RMM) application. 4: Link downloads RMM, allowing CTA to control carrier computer system and accounts. 5: CTA uses compromised carrier accounts to bid on real loads. 6: Drivers pickup loads. 7: Loads cross-docked/transloaded to complicit drivers, stealing loads for resale.
