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As ransomware attacks battered transportation and logistics companies in 2021, here are six things we learned about cybersecurity and freight.

Inside a ransomware attack on a small trucking company Manager describes how hackers breached computers and got into the transportation management system 3,529 4 minutes read George got the email a week after the ransomware attack on the small trucking and logistics company he manages. It contained screenshots from within the firm’s transportation management system, or TMS, the digital nerve center that orchestrates the movement of trucks and freight. The hackers sent the screenshots among other stolen data. They aimed to pressure the 25-truck operation into paying a $300,000 ransom in e...