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Switch Pirates Mod Owes Nintendo $4.5M, Court Rules [2026]

Nintendo has won a $4.5 million default judgment against James Williams, an alleged moderator of the r/SwitchPirates subreddit who went online by the handle “Archbox.” The ruling, first reported by Aftermath and covered by Kotaku, CBR, and player.one, closes out a case Nintendo filed against Williams in 2024 as part of a wider legal offensive…

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Cyber Security

Roundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned that a now-patched Roundcube Webmail vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score: 8.1), a pre-authentication SQL injection in the virtuser_query plugin of Roundcube Webmail versions 1.6.x before 1.6.16 and 1.7.x before 1.7.1. The issue stems from a preg_replace()…

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Cyber Security

New bill would create federal investigative body for AI-driven hacks 

A new Democratic bill in Congress would establish a federal Cybersecurity and AI Board of Investigations to provide independent government oversight of cyberattacks carried out by AI agents, following recent hacks by models run at companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and others. The bill, introduced by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., would attempt to establish a…

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Bipartisan Senate leaders introduce bill to bolster telecom cybersecurity in response to Salt Typhoon hacks

The legislation from Senate Intelligence Vice-Chairman. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Senate Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Tex., would create a government-industry group to write voluntary best practices. The post Bipartisan Senate leaders introduce bill to bolster telecom cybersecurity in response to Salt Typhoon hacks appeared first on CyberScoop.

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