The New York “SIM farms” dismantled Tuesday by the U.S. Secret Service could have scammed citizens, but cellular operators and security experts say it would have had a hard time blacking out the ...

It’s not often a police operation unearths a phone network so expansive it could text message each individual in the United States in less than a quarter of an hour. But, in what authorities have ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service has found and is quietly dismantling a massive network of “SIM farms” across the New York area just as world leaders gather for meetings at the United Nations.

Secret Service agents seized more than 100,000 SIM cards and over 300 SIM servers from a massive SIM farm located just miles from the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Cybersecurity expert ...

A collection of "SIM boxes" that hold from hundreds to more than a thousand SIM cards, and each SIM contains a cellular phone number. SIM farms are used for both legitimate and illegitimate purposes.