"The scale of the scheme sounds staggering. The Secret Service said that its agents seized more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 SIM servers, spread across five different safe houses in or around the city. All were unoccupied, though authorities also seized 80 grams of cocaine, illegal firearms, as well a s computers and cell phones. One official who chose to remain anonymous told the New York Timesthat the network could send 30 million text messages per minute."
""These devices allowed anonymous, encrypted communications between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises, enabling criminal organizations to operate undetected," Matt McCool, the head of the Secret Service New York Field Office, said in a video statement, as quoted by NBC News. "This network had the potential to disable cell phone towers and essentially shut down the cellular network in New York City.""
Secret Service agents seized more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 SIM servers from five safe houses in and around New York City. Authorities also recovered 80 grams of cocaine, illegal firearms, computers, and cell phones; all locations were unoccupied. The network could send up to 30 million text messages per minute and enabled anonymous, encrypted communications between threat actors and criminal enterprises. The system had the potential to disable cell phone towers, block cellular service across Manhattan, and send an encrypted, anonymous text to every person in the United States within 12 minutes. Officials said the operation could interfere with emergency responder and police communications while facilitating its own encrypted coordination. The network was neutralized.
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