"An investigation led to the agency's discovery of SIM servers and cards housed at multiple locations concentrated within 35 miles of the United Nations General Assembly meeting at New York City. "This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites," the Secret Service said in a statement. "In addition to carrying out anonymous telephonic threats, these devices could be used to conduct a wide range of telecommunications attacks.""
""This includes disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of service attacks and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises," the agency said. In the largest seizure of its kind, the massive SIM farms were found hidden in abandoned buildings across the tri-state area and had the capability to fire off 20 million anonymous text messages per minute to crash cell phone towers and block emergency services."
Secret Service agents uncovered a large network of SIM servers and about 100,000 SIM cards concentrated within 35 miles of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The devices were housed in abandoned buildings across the tri-state area and could send up to 20 million anonymous text messages per minute. The network could carry out anonymous telephonic threats, disable cell towers, enable denial of service attacks, and facilitate encrypted communications for threat actors and criminal enterprises. The Advanced Threat Interdiction Unit led the investigation and seized electronic devices to prevent disruption to telecommunications and emergency services.
Read at The New York Sun
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