I can confirm about a recent attempted ship hijacking near Iran. Sauce: my SIL works for an international merchant marine staffing company in Europe. She told me about the attempted hijacking before it hit the news.

A kamikaze drone was used to try to hijack an israeli ship called Mercer Street. The drone blew up, killed the Romanian captain, and a British crew member, and took out all comms on the ship. The ship somehow still made it to Fujeirah in the Emirates. The staffing company decided to relieve the crew after what happened, and the replacement crew flew in today.

I saw the pics of the burning ship. It wasn't pretty.