Overview

• Agents seized more than 300 SIM servers and over 100,000 SIM cards clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations, a cache officials said could send up to 30 million texts per minute.
• Investigators say the system had the capability to disable cell towers, jam 911 calls and execute denial‑of‑service attacks across New York City’s cellular network.
• Officials reported no direct plot against the U.N. General Assembly and no known credible threats to the city, though they cautioned similar networks may exist elsewhere.
• Early analysis points to communications between nation‑state actors and organized crime, cartels and human trafficking networks, with a reported China link remaining unconfirmed.
• No arrests have been announced; the Secret Service’s Advanced Threat Interdiction Unit led the takedown with Homeland Security Investigations directing the criminal probe, and agents also recovered drugs, illegal firearms and digital devices.