Last week the United Nations General Assembly kicked off in New York City. On the first day, a strange US Secret Service press conference revealed that they had seized 300 SIM Servers with 100,000 SIM cards. Various media outlets jumped on the idea that this was some state-sponsored sleeper cell waiting to destroy telecommunication services around New York. Like me, you may have immediately wondered why some of the photos showed sophisticated racks of servers on shelves while others showed a hodge podge of devices strewn about the bare floor of an otherwise empty apartment.
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| photos extracted from USSS reporting |
SIM Pools on Telegram
Beginning in late 2024, every cell phone in the USA started getting hit hard with annoying messages claiming to be informing us of undelivered packages. In early 2025, this morphed into the famous “Toll Road” phishing messages which started off with messages supposedly about unpaid tolls in Massachusetts Easy Pass and now imitate every toll road system in America. Because the goals of these SMishing messages were to load credit cards onto phones and use them to steal money, DarkTower spent quite a bit of time studying the infrastructure, which is primarily advertised and sold in Telegram channels that we call “Chinese Guarantee Syndicates.” I’ve conducted several briefings about these syste
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