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Content promotion services have been in the "gray market" for a while, but fake news didn't start to gain widespread attention until the 2016 US Presidential election, explains Vladimir Kropotov, senior researcher for Trend Micro's Forward-Looking Threat Research (FTR).

The vulnerabilities were reported to the vendor by Steven Seeley of Offensive Security through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI).

The AP validated the list by running it against a sample of phishing emails obtained from people targeted and comparing it to similar rosters gathered independently by other cybersecurity companies, such as Tokyo-based Trend Micro and the Slovakian firm ESET.

The longest exploit chain in the history of the Pwn2Own competition was demonstrated at the Mobile Pwn2Own 2017 event in Tokyo, with security researchers using 11 different bugs to get code execution on a Samsung Galaxy S8.

"The phone connects to a Wi-Fi network and a malicious app is installed. Sensitive information can be exfiltrated from the targeted device," said a spokeperson from Trend Micro.