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Traditional zero-click attacks mostly rely on unpatched remote code execution vulnerabilities in the operating system or browser (such as iMessage's FORCEDENTRY), whereas AdFection does not rely on a specific CVE and instead abuses browser API behaviors permitted by the advertising standard itself.
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