NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service has found and is quietly dismantling a massive network of “SIM farms” across the New York area just as world leaders gather for meetings at the United Nations.

Law enforcement agencies from Austria, Estonia, Finland, and Latvia, together with Europol, have seized thousands of SIM-box devices and SIM cards used in multiple scam campaigns. The police kicked ...

It’s not often a police operation unearths a phone network so expansive it could text message each individual in the United States in less than a quarter of an hour. But, in what authorities have ...