## Researchers Push Over 2 Million Updates to Remotely Disable Popcorn Time Updater That Could Fuel a Botnet

- 種別: news
- 公開日時: 2026-10-24T09:04:24.000Z
- 情報源: The Hacker News (https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-push-over-2-million-updates.html)
- パーマリンク: https://vulnpulse.app/items/thehackernews-ae5fe3ec49b3

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