Secret Service Takes Down Network Capable of Crippling NYC’s Cell System

The Secret Service just took down a network that could’ve “crippled” New York’s telecom systems – this as more than one-hundred world leaders have gathered in the city for the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, including Donald Trump.
And we’ll get into what Trump had to say and what else is going on with this meeting, but first, let’s talk about this crazy situation uncovered by the Secret Service.
Right, it reportedly followed a monthslong investigation into what authorities have described as anonymous “telephonic threats” made against three high-level government officials – one in the Secret Service and two who work at the White House. []
With CNN reporting that these threats may have been something like the swatting calls we’ve seen directed at more and more public figures over the past few years.
But in any case, back in August, it led to the discovery of an operation the likes of which – according to at least one official – the agency had never seen before.
Right, it reportedly would have been capable of sending an encrypted and anonymous text to every human being in the country within 12 minutes.
With investigators finding more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers at several locations within a 35-mile radius of the UN’s headquarters.
And Matt McCool, the top agent at the Secret Service’s New York field office, saying:
“This network had the potential to disable cellphone towers and essentially shut down the cellular network.”
And with all that, it reportedly became clear to law enforcement that what they had discovered had been built for far more than just making untraceable swatting calls.
In addition to jamming the cellular network, for example, the system could be used for surveillance.
And so investigators have been going through the data on the SIM cards they recovered to see if they can figure out exactly what this is all about.
With McCool saying they expect to find that other senior government officials had also been targeted. []
And of course, that begs the question…by whom?
Well, so far, an initial analysis has reportedly identified ties to at least one foreign nation, as well as links to criminals already known to law enforcement, including cartel members. []
And you’ve had experts saying the scale of the operation suggests that it could be part of a nation’s espionage operation.


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