NEW YORK (LOOTPRESS) – The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a large network of electronic devices in the New York tristate area that officials say posed an imminent threat to senior U.S. government officials and the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure.

The protective intelligence investigation uncovered more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards spread across multiple sites. According to investigators, the devices were capable of carrying out a range of attacks, including anonymous telephonic threats, disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial-of-service attacks, and providing encrypted communications for potential threat actors and criminal enterprises.

“Forensic examination of these devices is still underway,” the agency said, noting that early analysis sugge

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