Hackers hit the transportation and logistics industry hard in 2020. Many of the cyberattacks involved ransomware — essentially a vehicle for extortion.
Ransomware attacks aim to cause as much operational disruption as possible by encrypting data. Hackers then demand victims pay to restore access. Increasingly, so-called double extortion ransomware attacks are leveraging data theft and the threat of public release — or sale — of the data.
Ransoms can run in the millions of dollars. The attacks...
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