China's over billion mobile phones users could become the "main target" for hacker attacks, an official network security report said.
Mobile phone users in China, the largest in the world, will be hackers' main target in the future, China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team said.
About 7.12 million internet-capable smartphones were infected with malicious programs in 2011 and the number has been increasing rapidly, it said.
The team found and terminated 6,249 malicious programs last year, more than twice as many as in 2010, it said.
Hackers often designed software and applications to destroy mobile phone systems to get users' personal information, taking remote control of them and stealing bank account information or passwords, the report said.
- TOI
Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:19 pm by chaoske
