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Kaspersky highlights key industries targeted by APT groups across the Middle East, Türkiye and Africa
Kaspersky has revealed that the Middle East, Türkiye and Africa are a focus for 25 Advanced Persistent Threat( APT) groups tracked since early 2024.
The findings show that these groups target financial services, critical infrastructure, defence and government entities, while also extending their reach into commercial and emerging industries.
The research shows a diverse threat landscape, with both established and emerging groups active across the region. For example, the Griffith group consistently targets the financial services industry across multiple countries, while SideWinder demonstrates a wide geographic scope and industry reach, mainly focusing on espionage. Additionally, Kaspersky experts have observed campaigns from the APT Evasive Panda and Cloud Atlas, both active in Türkiye.
Kaspersky researchers noted that initial access by the majority of APTs targeting the region is often gained through socially engineered spear-phishing campaigns. Once inside, these threat actors prioritise stealth, frequently masquerading as legitimate services or routine scheduled tasks.
Maher Yamout, Lead Security Researcher at Kaspersky
“ When we analyse APT activities in the region, what stands out is how quickly their methods adapt,” said Maher Yamout, Lead Security Researcher at Kaspersky.“ We’ re seeing attackers experiment with new exploits, expand into uncommon sectors and, in some cases, test the waters in countries that were previously less affected. It’ s a clear reminder that no industry or organisation is off the radar for advanced attackers.”
Oracle and AMD expand partnership to help customers achieve next-generation AI scale
Oracle and AMD have announced a major expansion of their longstanding, multi-generation collaboration to help customers significantly scale their AI capabilities and initiatives. availability of OCI Compute with AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs. These will be available in the zettascale OCI Supercluster.
Building on years of coinnovation, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure( OCI) will be a launch partner for the first publicly available AI supercluster powered by 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, with an initial deployment starting in calendar Q3 2026 and expanding in 2027 and beyond.
This announcement builds upon the joint work of Oracle and AMD to deliver AMD Instinct GPU platforms on OCI to end-customers, beginning with the launch of AMD Instinct MI300X powered shapes in 2024 and extending to the general
Demand for large-scale AI capacity is accelerating as next-generation AI models outgrow the limits of current AI clusters. To train and run these workloads, customers need flexible, open compute solutions engineered for extreme scale and efficiency.
OCI’ s planned new AI superclusters will be powered by the AMD‘ Helios’ rack design, which includes AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, next-generation AMD EPYC CPUs codenamed‘ Venice’ and next-generation AMD Pensando advanced networking codenamed‘ Vulcano’.
This vertically optimised, rack-scale architecture is designed to deliver maximum performance, scalability and energy efficiency for large-scale AI training and inference. p
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