Cybersecurity
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Claims of ransomware attacks on factoring firm eCapital shrouded in mystery
Two ransomware gangs claim they attacked and stole data from freight factoring provider eCapital. But was the company actually hacked twice?
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American Shipper
Did hackers pull off a maritime ‘Colonial Pipeline 2.0’?
A ransomware attack on a maritime fuel storage provider in the Canary Islands likely didn’t live up to the hackers’ hype. But the incident reflects…
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FreightWaves LIVE
Cold Chain Summit: Why hackers see cold storage as ‘prime target’
Kurt George of Property Damage Appraisers explains during a fireside chat at FreightWaves’ Cold Chain Summit why cold storage facilities are particularly vulnerable to ransomware…
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Cyberthieves say they have ‘moral principles’
The cybercriminals who operate a dark web marketplace admit to hacking companies' networks and stealing their data. But they say ransomware violates their moral code.
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Truckload Indexes
Scams endure even as COVID retreats
As employees return to the office, scammers are upping their efforts to scam companies and hack systems.
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China targets Full Truck Alliance in cybersecurity probe
Regulators in China target two Full Truck Alliance apps in a cybersecurity investigation less than two weeks after the freight platform’s U.S. IPO.
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Why a trucking company called a lawyer minutes after a ransomware attack
A lawyer who specializes in cyber incident responses gives the inside story of what happened after a ransomware attack hit a trucking company.
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How does a ransomware attack work?
As frightening as they appear, ransomware attacks are based on a simple concept of locking up data and effectively holding it hostage.
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Cybersecurity
US recovers $2.3M of ransom paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers
The Department of Justice seized most of the Bitcoin paid to the gang behind Colonial Pipeline cyberattack as the U.S. targets the “entire ransomware ecosystem.”
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Data breach hits 44 big Canada Post shippers, exposing nearly 1M customers
Canada Post says a cyberattack and data breach at an EDI supplier impacted 44 of its major parcel shippers and nearly 1 million of its…
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