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fromSecurityWeek
2 days ago

A Massive Telecom Threat Was Stopped Right As World Leaders Gathered at UN Headquarters in New York

While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area - a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable. The cache, made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations, represents one of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on U.S. soil.
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fromWIRED
3 days ago

'SIM Farms' Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say

Due to the sheer scale of the infrastructure of this single SIM farm-and the fact that it reportedly came onto the Secret Service's radar after it was exploited in "swatting" attacks that targeted US members of Congress around Christmas of 2023-the agency has warned that the operation, which has been at least partially dismantled, posed a serious threat of a disruptive attack on cellular service.
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fromThe Verge
3 days ago

Secret Service dismantles network capable of shutting down cell service in New York

A Secret Service operation dismantled a well-funded SIM-server network near the UN that could enable assassination threats and disable New York cellular communications.
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