{"id":"thehackernews-ae5fe3ec49b3","seq":725897,"kind":"news","title":"Researchers Push Over 2 Million Updates to Remotely Disable Popcorn Time Updater That Could Fuel a Botnet","url":"https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-push-over-2-million-updates.html","permalink":"https://vulnpulse.app/items/thehackernews-ae5fe3ec49b3","summary":"Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the machine. The updater belongs to Time4Popcorn, an abandoned copy of Popcorn Time, a free app that streamed pirated films and TV over BitTorrent. Popcorn Time was","severity":null,"techs":[],"cves":[],"tags":["security"],"source":{"id":"thehackernews","name":"The Hacker News"},"published_at":"2026-10-24T09:04:24.000Z","fetched_at":"2026-10-24T10:18:51.240Z"}