Abandoned Popcorn Time App Exposed Millions of Devices to RCE Attacks
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Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army
Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the "Netflix of Piracy" software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot […]
Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of devices to RCE attacks
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. [...]
Millions of computers and other devices still had an old Popcorn Time update service running. Security researchers eventually decided to push out an update themselves that disabled the vulnerable service.
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