The SIM Swarm: How a 100,000-Card Farm Exposes Critical Flaws in Mobile Security
The recent U.S. Secret Service takedown of a massive telecommunications network, boasting 300 SIM servers and over 100,000 SIM cards, reveals a sophisticated threat landscape evolving beyond simple phishing. This "SIM swarm" infrastructure represents a scalable weapon for espionage, denial-of-service attacks, and widespread social engineering, fundamentally undermining the trust we place in mobile networks as a secure authentication factor.
The very concept of a phone number as a identity anchor will be called into question, leading to new standards for digital identity verification.
How ‘SIM farms’ like the one found near the UN could collapse telecom networks
Started by K-Dog Sep 25, 2025, 10:48 PM
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