{"id":38063,"date":"2026-08-20T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/us-bound-oil-tanker-targeted-in-cyberattack\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:30:05","slug":"us-bound-oil-tanker-targeted-in-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/us-bound-oil-tanker-targeted-in-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"US-bound oil tanker targeted in cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6139917.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>On August 7, 2026, the giant tanker \u201cVL PROSPERITY\u201d, with a capacity of 2.3 million barrels of crude oil, which was sailing under the Liberian flag from Egypt\u2019s Sidi Kerir port toward one of the ports of the United States, was targeted by a major cyberattack in the Strait of Gibraltar, and all of its communications were cut off for 30 hours.<\/p>\n<p>According to one of the ship\u2019s crew members, the attackers infiltrated the engine-room systems, reduced the engine\u2019s cooling flow, increased the engine speed, and disabled the ship\u2019s fuel and engine-oil tank. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Some Russian-language media outlets, citing senior Russian analysts, assess the operation within the framework of a direct confrontation between the Resistance Front and the US, and believe its message to Washington is that US assets in international waters do not have immunity and that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf should also not regard changing the route of their oil exports as a way to circumvent this surveillance, because monitoring of these routes will continue.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/247123\/US-bound-oil-tanker-targeted-in-Cyberattack\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 7, 2026, the giant tanker \u201cVL PROSPERITY\u201d, with a capacity of 2.3 million barrels of crude oil, which was sailing under the Liberian flag from Egypt\u2019s Sidi Kerir port toward one of the ports of the United States, was targeted by a major cyberattack in the Strait of Gibraltar, and all of its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}