Secret Service disrupts telecom threat near UN General Assembly

The American Secret Service has disrupted a network of communications devices that can close cellular systems as leaders meet the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

The agency said on Tuesday that last month it found more than 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards that could have been used in telecommunications attacks inside the area that includes parts of New York, New Jersey and Contecticut.

“This network had the ability to disable mobile phones and close the cellular network in New York City,” said a special representative of the official Matt McCall.

The devices have been discovered 35 miles (56 km) from the United Nations, where leaders meet this week.

McCole said that the well -known and well -funded laws are well -known.

He added that the actors in the non -specified nation -state were sending encrypted messages to organized and expedited crime groups and terrorist organizations.

Officials say the equipment was able to send text messages to all US population within 12 minutes. It can also have obstructed mobile phones and launched the dispensed service attacks that may have prevented communications in emergency situations.

The devices are seized from SIM farms in abandoned residential buildings across more than five sites. Officials did not specify the sites.

Unidentified officials said the New York Times said that the discovery after an investigation into an unidentified “phone threats” directed at three US government officials this spring.

One of the officials working in the secret service and the other two works at the White House, according to the newspaper.

CBS News also told that they had found 80 g of cocaine, illegal firearms, computers and phones.

More than 100 world leaders and delegation met in the center of Manhattan for the eighties of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.