Ten Pakistani sailors held hostage by Somali pirates aboard the MT Honour 25 for 57 days have released a video plea for urgent government intervention due to severe food and water shortages and illness. Negotiations remain stalled, with pirates initially demanding $10 million, later reduced to $4 million, as piracy resurges off Somalia's coast.
Deux hackers présumés, âgés de 22 et 15 ans, ont été mis en examen à Paris. Ils sont soupçonnés d'appartenir au groupe Dumpsec, qui aurait ciblé plus de 1500 entités pour dérober des données sensibles.
An international team has discovered six shipwrecks in Nassau harbour, Bahamas, three of which are linked to the "golden age of piracy" (1690s-1720s). Finds include a charred hull, swivel guns, and musket balls, offering insights into pirate life and tactics.
Aaron Judge hit a walk-off home run as the Yankees defeated the Rays 2-0. The Pirates beat the Blue Jays 4-1. The Tigers split a doubleheader with the Orioles, winning the second game 4-1 after losing the first 3-5. Other results included Guardians 3-1 Phillies, Twins 6-5 Red Sox, Mets 0-4 Marlins, Dodgers 5-1 Brewers, Mariners 6-8 Royals, Astros 8-5 Cubs, White Sox 5-8 Giants, Nationals 2-1 Braves, Athletics 5-2 Padres, Rockies 1-9 Diamondbacks.
McDonald's France has implemented corrective measures after a data leak allowed fraudsters to access and use customer loyalty points for discounts. The company reset account credentials as a precaution, stating no sensitive financial data was compromised.
Pirates hijacked the oil tanker M/T Eureka off the coast of Yemen, kidnapping 8 Egyptian and 4 Indian sailors. They demand $3-10 million in ransom, and families are concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian conditions on board.
Crackers take advantage of unencrypted files that briefly appeared on Steam.
A major leak of Forza Horizon 6's 155GB PC build occurred on Steam, granting pirates an early nine-day advantage. Despite the unencrypted files being mistakenly uploaded, the game is performing strongly commercially, ranking high in sales and wishlists. This incident follows a similar preload mishap with Death Stranding 2 earlier this year, highlighting a recurring issue in game distribution.
The full version of Playground Games' upcoming Forza Horizon 6 has leaked online over the weekend and has already been cracked by pirates. The download appeared on file sharing sites after some Steam users were allegedly able to obtain access to an unencrypted preload version of the game. Forza Horizon 6 isn't supposed to launch […]
Article about second-tier rugby club last December piqued interest of American private equity firm “I think my family already thought I was crazy so this is nothing new,” says Kenn Moritz from his home office in faraway Pittsburgh. The Moritz family may have a point. Given all those baseball, football, ice hockey and basketball franchises in the United States, why opt instead to invest in a second-tier English rugby club in Cornwall that almost folded less than two years ago?The catalyst turns out, ahem, to have been your correspondent’s article about the Cornish Pirates in the Guardian last December. Moritz was sitting where he is now, trawling through his trusted worldwide news sources when he stumbled across the Pirates’ quest for fresh investment. Somewhere inside him a light flicked on. “Without that article I wouldn’t have called,” says Moritz, the president of the private equity firm Stonewood Capital. “It gave me an insight into what was going on in English rugby and piqued my interest.” Continue reading...
Ces appels intempestifs lors desquels personne ne parle se multiplient, comme les arnaques de pirates se faisant passer pour des proches demandant de l’aide, avec une voix plus vraie que nature.
Cornish Pirates announce new investment from American firm Stonewood Capital Management, described as a "landmark" move by the club.
Stonewood take minority stake in Champ clubPirates officials call it a ‘landmark’ dealCornish Pirates have stolen a march on some bigger sides in the Prem by becoming the first English rugby union club to complete a significant deal with wealthy American-based backers. The Champ club have joined forces with the Pittsburgh-based private equity firm Stonewood Capital with the aim of revitalising the prospects of the Penzance side.The long-term arrangement would give Stonewood a substantial minority stake in the club for what is understood to be an initial seven-figure sum. Pirates officials are calling it a “landmark” deal and a “major milestone in the club’s evolution”. Continue reading...
A chilling voice note from her husband was all the warning Indonesian housewife Shanty Shanaya received of his impending kidnapping in some of the world’s most treacherous waters. “I’m about to be attacked,” her 33-year-old husband, Captain Ashari Samadikun, said in the April 21 voice note threaded with fear as a group he assumed to be pirates approached. He was captaining the Palau-flagged MT Honour 25 tanker, which was carrying fuel from Oman to Somalia – a route once notorious for pirates who...
Aave a déposé une requête auprès d'un tribunal pour récupérer 71 millions de dollars en ether gelés après une attaque sur le réseau Arbitrum. L’article Aave attaque en justice pour débloquer 71 millions $ liés à des pirates nord-coréens est apparu en premier sur Journal du Coin.
Earlier, Donald Trump admitted that the US military behaved like pirates when seizing tankers with Iranian oil
Somali pirates have hijacked the MT Eureka oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden near the port of Qana, marking the second tanker hijacking in the region within 10 days. The pirates departed from near Qandala in Puntland and overran the Togo-flagged vessel at 5:00 AM local time. The incident follows the April 22 hijacking of Honor 25 and comes amid a surge in Somali piracy since late 2023, when Houthi attacks forced international navies to redirect resources.
"We’re like pirates ... but we are not playing games,” Trump said at event in Florida.
Trump acknowledged US Navy actions as 'like pirates' while enforcing a naval blockade of Iranian ports, describing the seizure of ships and cargo including oil as 'profitable.' The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz enters its third week as ceasefire talks remain stalled, with Iranian President Pezeshkian calling the pressure 'intolerable.'
US President Donald Trump has compared US forces seizing Iranian ships to pirates Read Full Article at RT.com
Trump joked US forces are 'like pirates' while boasting about the seizure of Iranian tankers at a Florida dinner, as oil prices surged past $120/barrel for the first time since 2022. His approval rating fell to a record low 34% in Reuters/Ipsos polling. The April 19 seizure of the Touska cargo vessel near the Strait of Hormuz has drawn condemnation from Iran, which called the action 'piracy and banditry' and closed the waterway to enemy ships.
US President Donald Trump acknowledged that US forces acted "like pirates" during the seizure of two Iranian tankers, Majestic and Tifani, carrying 3.8 million barrels of oil. Speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida, Trump defended the seizure as profitable business. Iran has accused the United States of "state piracy" in a letter to the UN Security Council, calling the actions a gross violation of the UN Charter and reserving the right to respond in accordance with international law.
DÉCRYPTAGE - Dans un rapport choc, Europol revient sur les nouvelles pratiques des cybercriminels pour engranger toujours plus d’argent. Sans surprise, l’intelligence artificielle est devenue leur outil de prédilection.
