Food Product Shipments Could Be Stolen in BEC Attacks, US Food Companies Warned

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI) are all sounding the alarm about business email compromise (BEC) attacks that result in the theft of shipments of food items and ingredients.

BEC is frequently used to steal money. Threat actors compromise email accounts at target firms, then target employees who handle payments by sending them phony emails instructing them to wire huge sums of money to bank accounts under the attackers’ control.

The threat actors, however, are utilizing spoofed emails and websites to mimic real businesses in the attacks aimed at the food and agricultural industry and order food products without paying for them. In the events that were seen, the thieves took cargo worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“Criminals may repackage stolen products for individual sale without regard for food safety regulations and sanitation practices, risking contamination or omitting necessary information about ingredients, al

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