The article is suspiciously lacking in actual concrete examples. I'm not an expert here, but I can't actually think of a single historical example of a hack tha

The article is suspiciously lacking in actual concrete examples. I'm not an expert here, but I can't actually think of a single historical example of a hack that was targeted at "normal people" and also relied on unpatched vulnerabilities in old iPhones. Those sort of attacks happen all the time for desktops/routers/etc resulting in worms and botnets, but my suspicion is that the number of old iPhones mostly makes them not worth developing and deploying exploits for, much like how Linux has less malware than Windows. If anyone has a counterexample (software virus, for iPhone, reliant on vulnerabilities that were patched in the latest iOS at the time the exploit was in use, ideally not by a nation state) I'd definitely be interested to hear about it.