Trucking Industry Has Become a Top Target of Ransomware Attacks

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By Eric Miller
Staff Reporter
Transport Topics
October 6, 2019

SAN DIEGO -- Transportation is now one of the most cyberattacked industries in 
the United States, which puts trucking in the crosshairs of hackers, a panel of 
cybersecurity experts said here during American Trucking Associations 
Management Conference & Exhibition on Oct. 6.

“This is why we’re doing a session on cybersecurity,” said Ken Craig, vice 
president of special projects at McLeod Software, citing data from Forbes that 
said transportation ranks No. 5 on the list of industries with the most 
cyberattacks.

“If you take a step back from all of the critical infrastructures such as 
financial, transportation, medical and so on, transportation moved from No. 10 
to No. 2 most-attacked in 2018,” said Sharon Reynolds, chief information 
security officer for Omnitracs, in reviewing separate cybersecurity data by 
business sector from IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index.

Reynolds said that small trucking companies tend to be the biggest targets for 
ransomware attacks because they often don’t have sophisticated protections and, 
as a result, could be more likely to pay hackers who disable their computer 
systems. On the other hand, larger trucking companies, which often have more 
significant protections, can produce a bigger payday for hackers, Reynolds told 
Transport Topics.

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