PTA warns SIM owners over liability for misuse

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1424447/pta-warns-sim-owners-over-liability-for-misuse/

#PSA: #Encryptados * are #scammers that'll not deliver people an #eSIM when purchased.

• Even when contacted post-sale and asked about it they'd rather ghost one than actually delivering stuff...

And yes I have evidence to backup said claims!

#ConsumerProtection #ScamAlert #eSIMs #SimCards #privacy #SimCard #SIM #SIMs #privacy #scam

Okay, I got reliable info from a source that Encryptados are at least selectively scamming buyers...

• Cuz they don't deliver on test purchases from a new customers.

Stay away from these!

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Secret Service Dubiously Claims, Without Evidence, To Have Uncovered ‘Hidden Telecom Network’ That Could Have Crippled NYC, UN

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/25/secret-service-dubiously-claims-without-evidence-to-have-uncovered-hidden-telecom-network-that-could-have-crippled-nyc-un/

Ars Technica: US uncovers 100,000 SIM cards that could have “shut down” NYC cell network. “The US Secret Service announced this morning that it has located and seized a cache of telecom devices large enough to ‘shut down the cellular network in New York City.’ And it believes a nation-state is responsible.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/24/ars-technica-us-uncovers-100000-sim-cards-that-could-have-shut-down-nyc-cell-network/

1,000 SIM cards, eh? Hmmmm...🤔

A plot could have caused #CellPhone chaos. It's part of a troubling trend.

The discovery of thousands of devices that could have wiped out communications in #NewYorkCity comes after a series of #cyberattacks targeting the US.

by N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Will Carless, and Michael Loria
September 23, 2025

Excerpt: "The discovery of a vast telecommunications network that authorities say was capable of wiping out cellular communications in the nation's largest city is just the latest in a steady series of high-profile plots targeting critical #infrastructure.

"With the right amount of resources, bad actors can shut down anything from hospitals to gas #pipelines, according to Kevin Butler, director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research.

" 'What we're really seeing is how cyber attacks can be targeting various aspects of critical infrastructure and in very meaningful ways,' said Butler. "Even things like our water infrastructure or the #electricgrid.

"What happened in New York City?

"Investigators found more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards in the New York tri-state area. The Secret Service said it moved quickly to dismantle the network given its proximity to a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly.

"The devices allowed for anonymous, encrypted communication, which enabled criminal organizations to operate undetected, according to Matt McCool, special agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in New York. McCool said the network could have been used to disable cell phone towers, disrupt emergency communications, and shut down the city's cellular networks.

"Telecommunications devices discovered throughout the New York tristate area that the U.S. Secret Service claimed 'were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.'

"It's not yet clear who is behind the plot in New York or what their intentions were, but Butler said the level of sophistication indicates the perpetrators are likely a highly organized group, like a foreign government or non-state actor.

"And though attacks against telecom providers are not unusual, this kind of brute force method is almost unheard of, said Butler, a professor of computer and information science and engineering at the University of Florida. Though fraudsters sometimes amass SIM cards to execute scams, Butler said those operations typically involved 'a couple thousand at most.'

" 'My initial reaction is this is a very large scale attack,' Butler said. 'I've never heard of somebody putting 100,000 #SIMCards together in such a coordinated way.' "

Read more:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/23/nyc-cell-plot-cyberattacks-infrastructure/86309320007/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/nWu9B

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#Landlines #TechVulnerability #OneThousandSIMCards