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An abandoned Popcorn Time updater left millions of Windows and Mac computers open to remote takeovers, according to researchers who found machines still calling dead update servers years after users installed the old torrent client.
Summary
That pattern mirrors earlier cases where malware hid inside pirated Mac apps long after anyone meant to keep using them. […]
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