Researchers Remotely Disable Popcorn Time Updater to Prevent Potential Botnet

Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed over 2 million updates to computers to disable a vulnerable background updater belonging to the abandoned "Time4Popcorn" application. The updater, tracked as CVE-2026-30612, could have allowed an attacker to take over machines with high privileges, install ransomware, steal data, or pull them into a botnet.