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From that paper, 'The term “manipulative... connotes intentional or willful conduct designed to deceive or defraud investors by controlling or artificially affecting the price of securities."

If the claims you're making are true, then it's not deceiving or defrauding, even if the way the information was published was immoral under standard professional ethics.

If these vulnerabilities were misrepresented by the short sellers that funded it, then I suspect that would bring them into stock manipulation territory.