Business Insider - A desktop app called Popcorn Time launched last week gaining considerable attention for presenting pirated streaming movies in a clean and easy to use format. It was essentially a Netflix for pirated movies.
By Friday, it was taken down. The anonymous team of developers wrote a blog post proclaiming their motivation was 'we need to move on with our lives'.
if you use custom subtitles with VLC, Kodi, Stremio, or PopcornTime, your system may be at risk of a new type of malware.
A ransomware named "Popcorn Time" encrypts your Windows files with an AES-256 encryption. To unlock the files, the victim will need to pay one Bitcoin ($780 or roughly Rs. 52,600).
Norwegian economic crime police have seized the domain name of a local Popcorn-Time website. The site in question didn't offer any copyright infringing material, but featured news articles and links to external sites where the popular application could be downloaded. No arrests were made.
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