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UK marine engineering consultancy London Offshore Consultants (LOC) Group has been hacked by a group known as Maze.
The company, with more than 400 employees, saw its computers frozen on December 30 with hackers then demanding a ransom to unlock them.
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Source: splash247.com
Police are monitoring the remaining few hostage ‘spotters’ or lookouts working in cohorts with the kidnap-for-ransom group (KFRG) responsible for the kidnapping incidents in Sabah’s east coast.
Sabah Police Commissioner Omar Mammah (above) said the spotters under surveillance were fishermen.
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Source: malaysiakini.com
KOTA KINABALU: Two of the six men suspected to have kidnapped five Indonesian fishermen in Malaysian waters earlier this month have been shot dead by Philippine security forces.
Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) commander Hazani Ghazali said the suspects were killed in a shootout with Philippine security forces two days ago.
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Source: theborneopost.com
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Rear Admiral Oladele Daji, the Commander of Operation Awatse, says Tarkwa-bay is a hideout for sea robbers and officially it is a non-residential area.
Daji disclosed these on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise daily. Speaking concerning the eviction of Tarkwa-bay residents, Daji described this as a clearance operation code-named Operation Kuronbe (Yoruba word meaning Leave There).
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Source: channelstv.com
Major advances in the rapidly changing maritime industry have made this area a top target for an increasing number of sophisticated cyber criminals. Their computer attacks are threatening vessels and ports that facilitate 95% of all UK trade – totalling around £500 billion.
Says Rick Flood, managing director of leading cybercrime firm Falanx Cyber, part of the Falanx Group: ‘We are regularly seeing reports of ransomware attacks. These are where computer systems are compromised and payments – often extortionate – demanded to unlock them’.
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Source: directorstalkinterviews.com
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ABDUCTORS, who spread fear and terror in West African waters and are responsible for the rising cases of kidnapping in Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, among others, are mostly ex-militant members of a group who steal crude oil fromtanker ships and sell it to buyers on the black market.
In an exclusive interview by The Manila Times, the two freed Filipino seafarers said most of their abductors were former high-ranking officials of the Nigerian military who broke away from the government.
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Source: manilatimes.net
MarsecNews: Please note that this post was automatically translated from French into English and some errors may occur.
The future major terrorist attack after 9/11 could be navy. This is an alert made on Tuesday by Gorgui Sy, coordinator of the world’s largest LNG tanker suggests the establishment of a joint patrol unit in the sub-region to defend oil and gas facilities.
This is an exit worthy of a warning. The retired commander’s on potential terrorist attacks. “There is a whole system of security to be put in place around, especially in Senegal where we do not have these boats but we do not have a very dangerous zone certainly. But the exploitation of oil and gas always elicits malicious people who will want to show up or do things that don’t match what is expected,” Mr. Sy said on Rfm, noting that Senegal can set up its own shipping company if conditions are right.
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Source: senego.com
LAHAD DATU: The captors of the five Indonesian workers off Tambisan waters on Jan 15 have not made any ransom demand, said Sabah police commissioner Omar Mammah.
“Until today, we have not received any demand for ransom money from the kidnappers. We are investigating to find out who the masterminds are,” he said during a visit to the Lahad Datu police headquarters today.
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Source: freemalaysiatoday.com
LABUAN: Labuan marine police thwarted smuggling activities with a total seizure worth more than RM17 million last year, compared to RM1.5 million in 2018.
Sabah marine police (Region 4) commander, ACP Mohamad Pajeri Ali said Labuan marine police also foiled several attempts of illegal fishing by foreign fishermen and intrusion by illegal immigrants.
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Source: thesundaily.my
LAHAD DATU: Since 2018, security forces have thwarted 40 kidnapping attempts in the waters off seven districts in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (ESSZone).
Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) commander Datuk Hazani Ghazali said this was due to the cooperation between the Royal Malaysian Police, armed forces and the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency.
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Source: nst.com.my
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