Cyber-Enabled Cargo Crime: Phishing and Credential Theft Used to Steal Freight from Supply Chains

NMFTA analysis describes a structural shift in cargo-theft tradecraft toward phishing emails and stolen credentials used to reroute and steal freight, displacing physical hijacking as the primary attack vector. The framing positions cyber-enabled cargo crime as a convergence of cyber intrusion techniques and supply-chain theft, with cross-line underwriting relevance for marine cargo and cyber underwriters. No quantified losses, commodities, or geographies are provided in the cited material. A separate software supply-chain compromise signal (TanStack/OpenAI) is tracked as context only and does not alter the cargo-crime assessment.

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