Abandoned Popcorn Time app vulnerability exposed millions to attacks

• Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned Time4Popcorn app.
• The app, a fork of the Popcorn Time BitTorrent client, had a security flaw that could allow attackers to execute malicious code.
• The vulnerability could have affected millions of computers.
• The updater was disabled to prevent potential remote code execution attacks.
• The Popcorn Time app, known for streaming torrents, has been abandoned for years but remains installed on millions of devices.