Cargo thieves hijack freight accounts and spoof GPS to steal data center equipment
What happened
Ars Technica, citing NBC News on October 27, reported that stolen cargo bound for data centers has been worth more than $100 million since June. Thieves take over trucking company accounts with fake freight orders and malicious links, then bid on real loads, arrange pickups and move the equipment. One large theft used spoofed GPS to evade digital tracking, and some stolen trucks carried other goods too. Equipment from the two large cases NBC News examined has not been recovered, and an off-duty police officer hired to escort a load was hit in a hit-and-run.
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- Ars Technica · AIHighway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
货运盗贼利用账户劫持和 GPS 定位伪造窃取数据中心设备，NBC News 报道称自 6 月以来被盗货物超过 $100 million。盗贼通过虚假货运订单和恶意链接控制运输公司账户，再竞标真实订单、安排提货并转移设备；其中一起大额盗窃利用伪造定位逃避数字监控。部分被盗卡车混载其他商品，而 NBC News 查到的两起大额案件中设备均未找回，受雇护送货物的休班警察也遭遇肇事逃逸袭击。
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