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SIM Farm Discovered by Federal Agents

Investigators reference organized crime and possible foreign links, but no public arrests yet.

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What they found

  • Multiple sites within ~35 miles of midtown Manhattan running industrial SIM-card gear in abandoned apartments. Think server racks, but for phone numbers.
  • Rough scale: ~300 SIM servers and 100,000+ SIM cards seized.
  • Claimed throughput: up to 30 million texts per minute across the fleet.

Why it matters

  1. At that scale, you can hammer cell towers, degrade voice and text, and potentially interfere with 911 call capacity, especially during peak-load events. Secret Service flagged the UN General Assembly timing as especially risky.
  2. Realistic threat profile: bulk smishing, fake account creation, bot amplification, and cover for harassment or swatting ops. Infrastructure disruption is possible in bursts, though some telecom folks say a full blackout was unlikely with modern 5G safeguards. Both things can be true.
  3. This is one of the largest, most concentrated SIM-farm clusters publicly described in the U.S.

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