Secret Service Dismantles Electronic Network Posing Threat to Officials at UN Gathering

Agents found rows of servers and shelves stacked with more than 100,000 activated SIM cards at the site.

The United Nations headquarters stands in Manhattan in New York on Sept. 9, 2025. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The U.S. Secret Service dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct anonymous threats against senior U.S. government officials, the agency said in a Sept. 23 statement.

The devices—an assortment of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards spread across multiple sites—were discovered to be concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the U.N. General Assembly currently underway in New York City.