There are 3 billion Android devices. So basically everyone is incentivized to break in. Especially if the firmware is not updating, that means once you find an exploit it’s good forever
Plus, and most people don’t realize this, the same chips are used in multiple different phones. So you just have to break the baseband once, and you get into multiple different phone models
Who’s going to be digging into the depths of a 5+ year old phone on the off chance they can find a baseband vulnerability though?
Even if they do find something, the number of people for them to exploit is probably going to be vanishingly small.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22440813/android-devices-active-number-smartphones-google-2021
There are 3 billion Android devices. So basically everyone is incentivized to break in. Especially if the firmware is not updating, that means once you find an exploit it’s good forever
Plus, and most people don’t realize this, the same chips are used in multiple different phones. So you just have to break the baseband once, and you get into multiple different phone models