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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.
Summary
The updater belongs to Time4Popcorn, an abandoned copy of Popcorn Time, a free app that streamed pirated films and TV over BitTorrent.
This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
KazaSec's take
Stories like this are part of why proactive security testing exists, finding the gap before someone else does is always cheaper than responding after the fact.
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