Researchers at SRI International s Malware Threat Center released a paper on their efforts to reverse-engineer the binary for iKee.B, the second version of the worm to appear this fall. The worm was not an especially advanced bit of work but was quite effective at its main task: turning jailbroken iPhones into bots. Researchers say the worm shows how easy it might be for an attacker to create a fairly large, functioning botnet comprising mobile devices, an analysis shows.
Source: https://threatpost.com/iphone-worm-was-simple-effective-analysis-shows-121809/73278/