The research was done last week by Checkpoint and a very detailed technical analysis can be found at Agent Smith: A New Species of Mobile Malware - Check Point Research, but there is no mention of iOS, iPhone or Apple.
I see some instructions in the first article for removing it from an iPhone, but that’s about it. It seems to me that it could only impact a jail-broke iPhone that was downloading apps from somewhere other than the App Store. Another possibility is that you might be tricked by a pop-up by visiting an infected web site.
From the article:
The “Agent Smith” campaign is primarily targeted at Indian users, who represent 59% of the impacted population. Unlike previously seen non-GP (Google Play) centric malware campaigns, “Agent Smith” has a significant impact upon not only developing countries but also some developed countries where GP is readily available. For example, the US (with around 303k infections), Saudi Arabia (245k), Australia (141k) and the UK (137k).