Eye Security Disables Vulnerable Popcorn Time Fork to Prevent Global Botnet

By Stevie Bonifield · The Verge · 2026-10-23

The Verge reports that researchers at Eye Security recently took control of abandoned web domains to neutralize a massive security threat lurking in millions of devices. By hijacking the update mechanism for the defunct Time4Popcorn app, the team successfully pushed a patch that

The Verge reports that researchers at Eye Security recently took control of abandoned web domains to neutralize a massive security threat lurking in millions of devices. By hijacking the update mechanism for the defunct Time4Popcorn app, the team successfully pushed a patch that