"While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area - a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable."
"The cache, made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations, represents one of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on U.S. soil. Investigators warn the system could have blacked out cellular service in a city that relies on it not only for daily life but for emergency response and counterterrorism."
U.S. Secret Service dismantled a hidden telecom network across the New York area while world leaders assembled for the U.N. General Assembly. The cache included more than 300 SIM servers with over 100,000 SIM cards clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations. The servers functioned like banks of mock cellphones able to generate mass calls and texts, overwhelm local networks, mask encrypted communications, and potentially jam 911 lines. Investigators warn the system could have blacked out cellular service, crippling daily life, emergency response, and counterterrorism efforts. The discovery arose from a broader investigation into telecommunications threats targeting senior officials. No direct plot to disrupt the General Assembly has been identified.
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