{"id":5471,"date":"2025-07-19T07:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/chinas-massistant-tool-secretly-html\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T07:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:04:16","slug":"chinas-massistant-tool-secretly-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/chinas-massistant-tool-secretly-html\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>China&#8217;s Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a mobile forensics tool called Massistant that&#8217;s used by law enforcement authorities in China to gather information from seized mobile devices.<br \/>\nThe hacking tool, believed to be a successor of MFSocket, is developed by a Chinese company named SDIC Intelligence Xiamen Information Co., Ltd., which was formerly known as Meiya Pico. It specializes in the<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/07\/chinas-massistant-tool-secretly.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a mobile forensics tool called Massistant that&#8217;s used by law enforcement authorities in China to gather information from seized mobile devices. The hacking tool, believed to be a successor of MFSocket, is developed by a Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}