Abandoned Popcorn Time updater risked takeover of millions of PCs
Eye Security sinkholed updater domains and pushed a disabling update to about 2 million Windows and macOS systems.
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Eye Security pushed 2 million updates to disable Popcorn Time updater
CVE-2026-30612, scored 9.8, let anyone owning abandoned updater domains push code as SYSTEM or root.
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International Operation Disrupts Sality P2P Botnet
US-led international operation with Europol, CrowdStrike, and Shadowserver sinkholed the 20-year-old Sality P2P botnet, once exceeding one million infected machines.
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Sality, one of the longest
US and European authorities, with CrowdStrike and Shadowserver, disrupted the 20-year-old Sality peer-to-peer botnet, severing 15,000+ infected machines from operators.
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Global sinkhole operation ends Sality botnet’s 23-year run
Law enforcement, CrowdStrike, and Shadowserver sinkholed the 23-year-old Sality P2P botnet, cutting 15,000+ infected machines from its operator.
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Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes
Law enforcement and CrowdStrike disrupted the 23-year-old Sality P2P botnet, isolating 15,000+ infected machines and seizing linked domains.
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