Abandoned Popcorn Time apps disabled to head off potential botnet

Researchers at Eye Security found the updater for Time4Popcorn, a fork of the long-abandoned piracy app Popcorn Time, still running on many Windows, macOS and Android devices worldwide. It kept contacting abandoned web domains over unencrypted connections, leaving millions of installs at risk of being hijacked into a bot army, so the apps had to be disabled.