https://hackingpassion.com/tags/software-updates/Recent content in Software Updates on HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]HugoenSun, 25 Oct 2026 10:28:33 +0100https://hackingpassion.com/popcorn-time-updater-vulnerability/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:28:33 +0100https://hackingpassion.com/popcorn-time-updater-vulnerability/<p><strong>Up to 3 million Windows PCs and 350,000 Macs kept asking dead web addresses for updates to a movie app from 2014.</strong> The owners did nothing wrong. <strong>The updater had the highest rights and ran whatever came back.</strong></p> <p>Then a security company registered those addresses and found out what they meant. Over the months that followed, it sent its own code to those computers <strong>more than 2 million times, on machines that were not its own.</strong></p>