Overview
- Agents seized more than 300 SIM servers and roughly 100,000 SIM cards across multiple New York–area sites concentrated within 35 miles of U.N. headquarters.
- Officials say the system could disable cell towers, jam 911 calls, enable denial-of-service attacks, and send up to 30 million text messages per minute.
- The discovery stemmed from a spring protective-intelligence probe into telecommunications threats directed at senior U.S. officials.
- The immediate risk has been neutralized and no arrests have been announced, and authorities say they have not identified a specific plot targeting the General Assembly.
- Homeland Security Investigations, the Justice Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the NYPD assisted as agents warned similar networks may exist elsewhere.