To help raise awareness about third-party application security in smartphones, a pair of security researchers were able to build an 8,000-strong botnet using an innocuous application for weather to gain control of Android and jailbroken iPhones.
A botnet is a collection of or network of computers that run distributed computing software that usually are used for nefarious reasons, such as the distribution of malware.
The researchers distributed the software through clearinghouses that offer applications to Androids and jailbroken iPhones. The term ‘jailbreak’ means to allow any code to run on an iPhone or iPod Touch as opposed to only code authorized by Apple. It should be strongly noted that the pair avoided the iPhone app store because of Apple’s strict security process regarding submissions.
The researchers stated that this proof-of-concept code have no plans of releasing the application.
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