Lookout has shared technical information on Massistant, a mobile forensics tool that law enforcement in China uses to collect information from mobile devices.The application is believed to be the successor of MFSocket, a tool that was analyzed in 2019, and which was used by the country’s police for the same purposes.Both applications require physical access to the device to be installed, and are developed by Chinese surveillance specialist Xiamen Meiya Pico Information, which wassanctionedby the...
