End of the road: Cargo criminals attacking the U.S. supply chain at alarming rates (youtube.com) cnbc
The overseas criminals target the systems US companies use, ie they hack them (ie their code or person-level security isn't good).
Meta and Oculus, Nike Air Jordans. Popular targets.
They use fake invoices and fake agents ready to pick up the phone if someone calls to check. They impersonate real companies.
Little risk, lots of reward. Non violent. These cargos can be worth like half a million. The average is $203k. A lot of the people are overseas, like Pakistan. The companies are overseas themselves.
‘Once you figure out how the system works, it looked pretty easy.’
‘Strategic cargo theft.’ ‘It’s like catfishing.' (They get an employee to give them their login info, whether by social hack ('Hey I need you to verify your account with your password.' 'Ok, I'll verify'.) or just pay him.) A criminal goes online and impersonates a legitimate person in the supply chain. They impersonate a broker (between the shipper of goods and the trucker). They post listings of available jobs for truckers to pick from. Trucker goes and gets the goods and delivers them where the brockerage wanted them to. At some point, the trucker notices he didn't get paid. It takes a long time to figure out what happened, at what point.
‘All this technology that was to make things more efficient can be hacked pretty easily.'