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October 23, 2026 ai_technology cybersecurity

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. [...]

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