🇺🇸 8 men stole millions in goods by impersonating trucking companies with fake emails, forged placards, and phishing scams before anyone noticed the shipments were gone.
25,000 lbs of cheese, 43,000 lbs of copper, $165,000 in lamb. All intercepted before reaching their destinations and funneled through an NYC black market network tied to organized crime.
Supply chain theft has gone fully hybrid: 1 spoofed email address is now enough to redirect an entire freight load.
Source: CBS NY - YT
Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary McLane is planning to deploy self-driving trucking technology from Aurora Innovation on routes in Texas and across the U.S. Sun Belt by the end of the year, expanding on an autonomous freight pilot program the companies began in 2023.
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