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Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of device to RCE attacks

BleepingComputer·October 23, 2026·1 min read
Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of device 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. The fix prevents potential remote code execution attacks.

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