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Researchers Push Over 2 Million Updates to Remotely Disable Popcorn Time Updater That Could Fuel a Botnet

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This page references a cybersecurity signal published by The Hacker News. It helps CISOs, DPOs, IT leaders, infrastructure teams, SMBs and enterprise accounts track vulnerabilities, alerts and trends that may affect security, compliance or system resilience.

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This signal relates to AI usage, assistants, models or data handled by these systems. It should be read through a governance lens: which data enters the tool, which access is granted and which traces remain auditable.

Watch points

  • Sensitive data sent to AI tools
  • Connectors, permissions and access logs
  • Internal rules for assistants, agents and local LLMs

Recommended action

Review handled data, connectors and available logs before authorizing or expanding the AI usage concerned.

Relevant for

DPOs, CISOs, IT leaders, innovation teams, exposed business units and AI compliance owners.

Source summary

Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the machine. The updater belongs to Time4Popcorn, an abandoned copy of Popcorn Time, a free app that streamed pirated films and...

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