{
  "id": 16734032,
  "title": "Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/dead-popcorn-time-updater-put-millions-of-computers-at-risk-of",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-27T09:44:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SecurityWeek",
    "slug": "securityweek",
    "url": "https://www.securityweek.com/dead-popcorn-time-updater-put-millions-of-computers-at-risk-of-takeover/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Running at system boot, it periodically polled the update domain to execute any code served, with full privileges. The post Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek .",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}