How Eye Security Quietly Disabled a Dangerous Popcorn Time Updater on Millions of Machines
Between November 2025 and March 2026, Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than two million non-destructive updates to machines running an abandoned Popcorn Time fork in a bid to disable a background updater that could have let an outsider take over those computers. The updater — found as Updater.exe on Windows and PT.updd on macOS — routinely checked long-abandoned web addresses and installed whatever it was served with SYSTEM…