Spotlight | Turkey
Turkey's Aselsan beefs up social media monitoring with natural language processing team

Turkey
Vulnerabilities market: Turkish hackers back in business

Veterans of the Turkish cyber vulnerability market have returned to the limelight, with a new operator offering bounties of up to $8m, an unprecedented sum.

Azerbaijan, Turkey
Turkey's Aselsan equips Azerbaijan with state-of-the-art electronic warfare equipment

Against a backdrop of tensions with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, Ankara has delivered new electronic warfare equipment to Azerbaijani forces. These strategic assets help explain Baku's brisk military victory.

The Tech Telegraph
Tesseract Intelligence in UAE, DARPA's underwater acoustic sensors, Skyral Defence

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT with a dose of cyber, every Thursday we report on the events big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

Abu DhabiBulgaria's Tesseract Intelligence sets sights on UAE via Pegasus

United StatesDARPA seeking to develop new acoustic sensor for deep-sea surveillance

LondonNOIA Capital makes adjustments at new firm specialised in VR training platforms

Turkey, United States
ISR firm Sierra Nevada caught up in Turkish electoral battle

Sierra Nevada Corporation, a long-standing ISR supplier to the US and Turkish intelligence communities, has become embroiled in a political power-struggle ahead of Turkey's elections. If the opposition wins, new contracts could be in the offing.

Spotlight | Saudi Arabia, United States
Private investigators allegedly involved in trans woman's forced return to Saudi Arabia

Special Investigations Limited was hired by the family of Eden Knight, who has reportedly committed suicide. Its CEO Michael Pocalyko, a former Navy pilot with a background in intelligence, reportedly misled Knight, claiming his goal was to help her repair relations with her parents.

UAE
UAE's Edge Group and G42 get into natural language processing

Natural language processing, popularised by ChatGPT, is of particular interest to the UAE's security apparatus conglomerates for their big data and open source intelligence (OSINT) programmes. The technology also promises to offer new firms in the sector a means to conduct low-cost influence operations.

Syria, Turkey
Taksim Square blast makes Ankara ill at ease with its private fighters in northern Syria

While it is still not clear who perpetrated the deadly attack in Istanbul on 13 November, a theory that Syrian fighters could be responsible has begun to surface in Ankara. This comes on the back of already growing disquiet between these fighters and their sponsor.