Researchers have observed the blossoming of a new type of social media nuisance they are calling Trolling-as-a-Service. They say these rabble-rousing efforts have emerged as a clever new way for hackers to launch coordinated and dangerous attacks via Facebook and Twitter. The research fellow at the foreign policy research institute spoke at a Tuesday session called Messing with the enemy: Surviving in a social media world He said the gravest concerns come from sophisticated online hecklers which he dubbed advanced persistent manipulators
Source: https://threatpost.com/trolls-for-hire-pave-way-for-sophisticated-social-media-hacks/152304/