{"id":4951,"date":"2025-07-18T20:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/chinas-massistant-tool-secretly-extracts-sms-gps-data-and-images-from-confiscated-phones\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:12:05","slug":"chinas-massistant-tool-secretly-extracts-sms-gps-data-and-images-from-confiscated-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/chinas-massistant-tool-secretly-extracts-sms-gps-data-and-images-from-confiscated-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity 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\u00a0Cybersecurity 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\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity 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 company named SDIC Intelligence Xiamen Information Co., Ltd., which was formerly known as&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/chinas-massistant-tool-secretly-extracts-sms-gps-data-and-images-from-confiscated-phones\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China&#8217;s Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}