Hackers targeting smartphone users in China: Report

BEIJING: 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.