TechAbandoned Popcorn Time apps disabled to prevent a zombie army

Eye Security researchers found the updater for the abandoned Time4Popcorn fork still running on devices worldwide, where it could be hijacked to install software, build a botnet or conduct surveillance. They took control of a related domain and sent an update disabling the updater on Windows and macOS, but did not address Android. Eye Security said it had sent more than 2 million update downloads by March before handing the domains to the Shadowserver Foundation.

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