Feds find 200,000 more SIM cards in N.J. after disrupting network that threatened U.N. General Assembly
Federal agents with internal security surveys discovered 200,000 additional SIM cards in a place in New Jersey, confirmed CBS News, sources of application of the law.
It follows last week discovery by the American secret services of a vast telecommunications network in the New York Tri-States region which, according to investigators THE United Nations General Assembly Meetings.
The agents were first lower than last spring and the managers believe that, among other foreign links, the telecommunications network was linked to Chinese actors, according to two sources of application of the informed law of the survey.
The authorities have always proceeded to any arrest.
The seizure announced by the secret services last week active SIM farms in abandoned abandonment buildings located on more than five sites was already the largest of its kind. The police had discovered 300 SIM servers – more than 100,000 SIM cards – allowing encrypted and anonymous communication capable of sending 30 million SMS per minute.
The officials said the servers were so powerful that they could have deactivated cell phone tricks and launching denials of services distributed with the possibility of blocking emergency communications such as EMS and police dispatch. An informed official of the survey told journalists that the sophisticated network “could send an SMS to the whole country within 12 minutes” and added that “this was well organized and well funded”.
Early analysis has shown that the network was used for communication between foreign governments and known individuals of American police, including gang members of known organized crime, drugs of drugs and human trafficking rings, according to several informed managers of the investigation. The secret services are going through SIM cards as part of a forensic analysis.
An official told CBS News that each SIM had the equivalent data of a mobile phone, and that the police went through each call, SMS and research made on SIM cards.
Internal security surveys have refused to comment, but a spokesperson for the agency confirmed to CBS News: “These application measures are part of a criminal investigation on a national and active scale of HSI.”
ABC News first reported on the discovery of 200,000 additional SIM cards.
