This abandoned torrent app could have exposed millions of devices to cyberattack
- Researchers say an abandoned Popcorn Time app could have enabled malware delivery to millions of devices through insecure updates
- The flaw let anyone controlling a defunct update domain push executable code to connected systems
- Security researchers safely disabled the updater, preventing potential compromise of millions of Windows and macOS devices
Security researchers recently discovered an abandoned torrent app which could have been used to deploy malware to millions of devices around the world rather easily.
Luckily enough, it seems that no threat actors discovered this vulnerability, and the researchers were able to legally close it and keep the devices safe.
Popcorn Time
A “torrent” is a popular way of downloading large files fast - instead of hosting the files on a single server and risking slow download speeds and downtime, hosting is split across numerous nodes in a network. Then, a small torrent file is created (.torrent) (usually around 100kb),...
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