Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army

Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served arsenic an easy-to-use beforehand extremity 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" bundle is inactive installed connected millions of devices that are conscionable waiting to articulation a bot army. Researchers astatine Eye Security recovered the updater for a Popcorn Time fork called "Time4Popcorn" inactive moving connected tons of Windows, macOS, and Android devices located astir the world, phoning location to now-abandoned web domains implicit unencrypted HTTP and moving an outdated, insecure mentation of Chrome.

Eye Security's Niels Teus …

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