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Europe’s commercial ports are top entry points for cocaine flooding in at record rates.  The work of a Dutch hacker, who was hired by drug traffickers to penetrate port IT networks, reveals how this type of smuggling has become easier than ever.  Court records and other documents obtained by reporters reveal how a man in the Netherlands hacked IT systems at the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp and sold valuable data to aid cocaine traffickers.

With access to the ports’ container management systems

Mailing Malware.  You just can’t make this up: but the oldest cyber threat tactic is back again.   A cybercrime group has been mailing out USB thumb drives in the hope that recipients will plug them into their PCs and install ransomware on their networks, according to the FBI.  The USB drives contain so-called 'BadUSB' attacks.  They were sent in the mail through the US Postal Service and United Parcel Service.  One type contained a message impersonating the US Department of Health and Human Ser