These days it is quite rare to hear news of viruses infecting mobile phones, but a new round of viruses has been making waves onto cellphones in China, and they do mean serious problem. According to Shanghai Daily, a so-called zombie virus disguised as an anti-virus app has infected more than one million cellphone users in the country, and it has left users’ phones vulnerable to the malicious hackers that created the virus. Virus disguised as anti-virus has been known to hit computers, but this is the first for cellphones.

They’ve naturally taken advantage of that access to not only spread the virus further, but cash in by spamming the phones with money-making links and other general annoyances — all of which has also added up to about $300,000 a day in added text message charges for the users affected. Now the funny side of the story is that, apparently authorities have managed to track down the source, or the company that’s said to have developed such program, but they’ve pleaded innocent and insists that they’re actually a victim of it as well.

SOURCE via Yahoo! News