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

The Verge · 2026-10-23 · 本文由易迈云（易迈云计算中心）自动采集整理

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[Topic] Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army
[Type] Internet Industry News
[Key points]
1. Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows
2. Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the "Netflix of Piracy" soft
[Industries] Internet
[Source] The Verge (auto-collected by AiEmy Cloud / AiEmy Cloud StAck)

Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end 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" software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot army. Researchers at Eye Security found the updater for a Popcorn Time fork called "Time4Popcorn" still running on tons of Windows, macOS, and Android devices located around the world, phoning home to now-abandoned web domains over unencrypted HTTP and running an outdated, insecure version of Chrome.

Eye Security's Niels Teus …

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