Investigators say New York–area sites held hundreds of servers and 300,000+ SIM cards capable of blasting 30 million anonymous texts per minute. That volume can overload towers, jam 911, and disrupt city communications without sophisticated cyber exploits. It reframes cheap SIM infrastructure as an urban DDoS weapon against critical telecoms.
— If low‑cost SIM farms can deny emergency services, policy must shift toward SIM/eSIM KYC, carrier anti‑flood defenses, and redundant emergency comms.
msmash
2025.10.16
60% relevant
The article describes foreign criminal networks using server farms to blast large volumes of phishing texts and a logistics chain to monetize stolen cards, echoing the broader point that mass SMS infrastructure can be weaponized at scale to harm public systems and safety.
BeauHD
2025.10.11
68% relevant
Both pieces surface telecom‑layer denial‑of‑service risks: the SIM‑farm story shows SMS floods can jam 911, while this article shows IoT botnets on U.S. ISPs can generate record‑scale DDoS that causes collateral network disruption. Together they point to communications infrastructure as a soft target requiring new safeguards.
BeauHD
2025.10.03
100% relevant
ABC/HSI sources: an extra 200,000 SIMs found in New Jersey; capability to send 30 million texts per minute and black out cellular service.
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