Fourteen suspected accomplices of the French Islamist militants behind the 2015 attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket in Paris go on trial on Wednesday.

"Attorneys who advocate paying to suppress data leaks are increasingly becoming extinct (as they should)," the researchers noted. "It is becoming codified best practice during data exfiltration incidents to start from a position of non-payment as the base scenario."

The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center issued an alert over the attack, warning ships in the area.

European Union naval forces are racing to reach a Malta-flagged tanker held by pirates off the coast of Somalia

Pirates boarded the Hellas Aphrodite, a Malta- flagged vessel carrying gasoline, as it was headed from India to South Africa. The EU's naval force said one of its vessels was near the incident and closing in.