iPhone and Malware

The iPhone is vulnerable to malware, as this article points out:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/researchers-websites-infected-iphones-spyware-151931958.html

Not only is this disconcerting that it happened, I wonder why Apple hasn't at least commented on

this? Any electronic device is capable of being hacked it seems. All one has to do is visit a "tainted"

website to get infected. And it seems there's no way to determine what a "tainted" website is.

Jim Hamm