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Oct 23 2026 Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of devices to RCE attacks

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Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned Time4Popcorn app, a fork of the Popcorn Time BitTorrent client, closing a security flaw that could have allowed attackers to execute malicious code with elevated privileges on millions of computers. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Fri 23 October 2026 in BleepingComputer.

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