I'm not sure anyone will burn a no interaction zero day on a human rights journalist. I suspect that kind of thing is hoarded by the big boys for when life and limb are on the line.
> The attacks utilized a cyber weapon called Karma. As Reuters reported in January, Karma allowed Raven operatives to remotely hack into iPhones by inputting a target’s phone number or associated email address into the attack software. Unlike many exploits, Karma did not require a target to click on a link sent to an iPhone, they said. Apple declined to comment.
I'm surprised it's still circulating then, it sounds like a very serious bug. It's still not known? (No CVE?)
There have been multiple reports of no interaction zero days used on journalists, including in the article above. Turns out, authoritarian governments really hate journalists who aren't sympathetic toward their regimes.
For example, switching to a dumbphone makes them likely to be more insecure, since they usually operate on 2 or 3g and offer zero encryption.