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Weekends are never slow for cyber news, particularly this past weekend. Check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you might have missed, including
--DHS warns of likely Iranian cyberattacks after Trump's missile strikes
--Authorities warn of Salt Typhoon threats in Canada,
--Aflac struck by likely Scattered Spider attack,
--DPRK likely behind BitoPro $11m theft,
--CoinMarketCap hit by wallet-draining attack,
--Hacker stole $250K …

DHS warns of likely Iranian cyberattacks following Trump's missile strikes
Authorities warn of Salt Typhoon threats in Canada, Aflac struck by likely Scattered Spider attack, DPRK likely behind BitoPro $11m theft, CoinMarketCap hit by wallet-draining attack, Hacker stole $250K from Hacken using leaked key, Garden Finance accused of laundering stolen crypto, much more

Interesting blog about creating a fully encrypted cloud storage on nextcloud.
https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/encrypted-private-nextcloud-VPS-and-storagebox

Nextcloud with fully encrypted storage
This tutorial shows how to setup your own Nextcloud following the recommended AIO approach, storing data encrypted on disk and using Hetzner's Storage Box.

“Following attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran… the IAEA can confirm that no increase in off-site radiation levels has been reported as of this time,”
US joins Israel in attacking Iran, strikes Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz sites | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera

US joins Israel in attacking Iran, strikes Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz sites
IAEA says it has not detected any increase in radiation levels at key nuclear sites in Iran following US air strikes.

A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity of special purpose vehicles, but some involve high fees, opaque structures, and layers of middlemen (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/mar

Investors warn AI FOMO could be fueling a risky bubble in companies like OpenAI and Anthropic
As AI valuations soar into the hundreds of billions, a parallel market of temporary financial shells is proliferating to meet investor FOMO, and many investors are starting to sound the alarm bells that it portends a bubble in the AI gold rush

"Trump demanded that energy producers keep down oil prices following US military strikes on Iran"
Trump Warns Against Rising Oil Prices Following Iran Attack | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-warns-against-rising-oil-prices-following-iran-attack

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
Abhigya Verma, Sriram Puttagunta, Seganrasan Subramanian, Sravan Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15690

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
GRAFT is a structured multimodal benchmark for evaluating models on instruction-following, visual reasoning, and visual-textual alignment tasks. It features programmatically generated charts and synthetically rendered tables, created with Python visualization libraries to ensure control over data semantics, structure, and clarity. Each GRAFT instance pairs a chart or table image with a systematically generated, multi-step analytical question based solely on visual content. Answers are provided …

Iran vowed swift retaliation Saturday following the U.S. military’s strikes on the Iranian nuclear program.
“Every American citizen or military personnel in the region is now a target,” a commentator on Iranian state media said.
Al-Asad Air Base, an Iraqi installation 150 miles west of Baghdad that is operated jointly by the Iraqi and U.S. air forces, houses thousands of American troops,
the largest U.S. deployment in the country.
Iran and its proxies have in recent…

U.S. bases that could attack Iran — and become targets
A number of U.S. military sites in the Middle East could face reprisals if Trump strikes Iran.

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Our governments have failed us, we are the only ones who can help. Your donations go directly to keeping families like Aseel’s alive as they struggle to survive Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
Please help Aseel and her family if you can.

Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza. I'm creating this Chuffed campaign for the family to help afford these things and hopefully help them get out of Gaza when the opportunity arises. Here's Aseel's writing:

Die chinesische Firma Gotion High-Tech hat mit der Produktion seiner 5MWh #Batteriespeicher in #Göttingen begonnen.
Ja, in Deutschland.🤪
Nach erfolgreicher #TÜV-Zertifizieru…

Gotion starts manufacturing 5MWh BESS in Germany following key certifications
Gotion High-Tech has launched manufacturing of its 5MWh BESS units at its manufacturing facility in Göttingen, Germany.

Trump’s sudden announcement Saturday night that he bombed three Iranian nuclear sites has Republican skeptics of U.S. military action against Iran largely falling in line.
The prospect of strikes against Iran had sparked backlash from Democrats and days of infighting within Trump’s MAGA coalition
But after the president posted on Truth Social that the U.S. has bombed Iran,
several GOP critics cheered the strikes as a "limited action".
Several top Democrats …