{"id":9544,"date":"2026-06-30T18:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:13:56","slug":"ai-driving-surge-in-cargo-theft-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/ai-driving-surge-in-cargo-theft-report\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Driving Surge in Cargo Theft: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The AI infrastructure boom is driving a dramatic surge in cargo theft, leaving companies and ultimately consumers to pick up the tab, reports Yahoo Finance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe bad guys are good at marketing,\u201d said Lewis, head of operations at risk-assessment firm Verisk CargoNet. \u201cIt\u2019s so much more strategic now, so much more targeted. They know what\u2019s hot and they know what\u2019s selling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the report,&nbsp;&nbsp;crooks are increasingly deploying AI to find and steal those goods in a digitally savvy twist that brings the breach full circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, losses from supply chain crime in the United States and Canada rose 60% to nearly $725 million as big-rig bandits zeroed in on valuable shipments, according to a report from CargoNet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many more thefts likely went unreported because companies fear reputational damage or higher insurance premiums, experts say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The average theft value rose by 36%, \u201cdriven by more selective, high-value targeting by organized groups,\u201d the report states. Theft of metals climbed by 77%, largely fueled by demand for copper products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ca.finance.yahoo.com\/news\/ai-demand-tactics-drive-surge-100008201.html\">full article here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI infrastructure boom is driving a dramatic surge in cargo theft, leaving companies and ultimately consumers to pick up the tab, reports Yahoo Finance.&nbsp; \u201cThe bad guys are good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,54],"tags":[329,43,2655],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cargo-crime-security","category-technology-equipment","tag-ai","tag-cargo-theft","tag-digital-crime"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}