1 million Chinese phones are infected with the virus

China has found that more than 1 million phones in the country have been infected with a virus. The virus constantly sends text messages and damages about $ 300,000 a day for those citizens, according to Shanghai Daily.

The downside of smartphones is that they are easily hacked and users have not paid much attention to the security of these devices.

According to Shanghai Daily, the ' zombie ' virus is hidden in fake antivirus applications. After installation, the virus will send all names and phone numbers on the user's SIM card to hackers. As a result, hackers will automatically control the phone and send spam messages to friends and relatives of the phone owner. Messages often have full paths and will infect other phones with viruses.

The virus was infected on the phones of 1 million users last September and they continue to increase since that time. China 's National Computer Emergency Rescue Center is working hard to solve this problem. As usual, mimic viruses have begun to appear and China is having a hard time tracking and finding the creator of this virus.

This is really a worrying issue, when the smartphone market is on the rise, the exploitation, intrusion and virus infection will appear more on phones worldwide. Experts say that attacks on mobile devices will increase sharply in the next few years. From theft or getting information on the device, through massive infectious campaigns and regularly exploiting server side vulnerabilities.

In July, a security firm discovered that a range of Android-based applications have been attached to viruses to steal personal information. The virus sends the user's phone number, identifies the subscriber and the number of voicemail to unknown locations in China. Fortunately, however, the virus did not damage millions of users like this.