The phrase "a means of exploiting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or ways to take advantage of a situation or resource, often with a negative connotation.
Example: "The company developed a means of exploiting the loopholes in the regulations to maximize their profits."
Alternatives: "a method of taking advantage" or "a way to utilize for gain".
In time, history suggests, opponents will work out a way of combatting that twin playmaker threat but, for now, it is a potent weapon still in its infancy, a means of exploiting weaknesses that had long lain unexposed in systems that use a back four.
Moore and Scruggs contrived a means of exploiting the asbestos issue to their mutual benefit.
Although the process is legal, it is seen as a means of exploiting a loophole in the legislation introduced by Labour to bring greater transparency to party funding.
On the far left in this country & elsewhere, his proposals are regarded as a complete fraud--not merely a means of exploiting foreign policy for votes at home but a deceitful scheme for perpetuating the war & imposing American domination.
Chaebol heads typically own only a small portion of their firms, but are able to maintain control through complex cross-holdings; tunnelling offers a means of exploiting that control to get richer, quicker.
He attacked the use of property as a means of exploiting the labour of others, but he regarded "possession"—the right of a worker or group of workers to control the land or tools necessary for production as an essential bulwark of liberty.
Of course, nobody forces the riders to do it, but the same argument could be made for boxers -- they are attracted by the possibility of big money, which is the promoters' means of exploiting them.
Some short-sighted companies have seized on the notion of "crowdsourcing" as a means to exploit the same vendors they would normally hire to carry out a professional task.
Throughout the world, the Islamists' goal is one and the same: to stoke the fires of unwitting Muslims into believing in their own manufactured sense of victimhood as a means to exploit both the uninformed Muslim and, often times, the liberal democracies where we make our homes.
The offshore floating wind turbines (OFWTs) draw a great deal of attention recently as a means to exploit the steadier and stronger wind resources available in deep water seas.
Furthermore, our study demonstrates the use of imputation of untyped genotypes as a powerful means of exploiting existing GWAS data sets to identify low-frequency disease-causing variants.
