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![TheHackersNews Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::209811713.png) The Hacker News [@TheHackersNews](/creator/twitter/TheHackersNews) on x 925.9K followers
Created: 2025-07-18 18:43:28 UTC

🔥 China’s border police are using a secret tool called Massistant to extract everything—from GPS to Signal chats—off phones.

It installs silently, pulls your data, then vanishes. iPhones may be next.

Details here →

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