Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover

Reported by SecurityWeek (Ionut Arghire)

Summary by Cyber Security News27 Oct 2026, 10:44 CET

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Running at system boot, it periodically polled the update domain to execute any code served, with full privileges.

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