Secret Service dismantles telecom threat around UN capable of crippling cell service in NYC
New York (AP) – While preparing to descend to the world leader Manhattan near 150 UN General Assembly, The US Secret Service was silently removing a large secret telecom network in the New York region – a system researchers say that he could crippled cell towers, compressing his 911 calls and leaving chaos nets under water as soon as he is the most vulnerable.
The cache, which is composed of more than 300 SIM servers in 35 miles of the United Nations full of more than 100,000 SIM cards, represents one of the most comprehensive communication threats in the US territory. Inspectors warn that the system may have darkened cellular service not only for daily life, but also for the fight against emergency intervention and terrorism.
When foreign leaders block Manhattan as they fill Midtown hotels and motor hotels, the authorities emphasize a new risk limit of removal: parcels for invisible infrastructure that keep a modern city connected.
A broader investigation led to this discovery
According to the researchers, the network was revealed as part of a wider secret service investigation on telecommunications threats targeting senior government officials. Authorities, more than one site spreading servers as fake mobile phones, such as banks, can produce collective calls and texts, local networks and encrypted communication criminals can mask, he said.
Matt Matt McCool, a special agent responsible for the New York Field Office of the Secret Service, said, not meaningful what this system can do, ”he said. “You can download the cell towers, then people can’t communicate anymore, don’t you?
Authorities said they did not create a direct plan to disrupt the UN General Assembly and noted that there was no reliable threat to New York.
Forensic analysis is still in the early stages, but the agents believe that nation-state actors use to send encrypted messages to organized crime groups, cartels and terrorist organizations of the perpetrators of perpetrators-system. At this point, the authorities did not explain details about certain government or penalty groups affiliated to the network.
“On 100,000 mobile phones, all phone calls, all short messages, anything about communication, we should see where these numbers are finished, Mc said McCool, McCool, McCool, McCool, said McCool, the process will take time.
A comprehensive, expensive operation
When the intermediaries entered the sites, they found the server and rack sequences stacked with SIM cards. Researchers, more than 100,000 are already active, but there are many waiting to be deployed, operators are preparing to double the capacity of the network or even double -fold evidence that evidence is prepared. He described this as a well -financed, highly -funded, highly -organized business that cost millions of dollars on hardware and SIM cards.
McCool, the operation is capable of sending up to 30 million text messages per minute, he said.
Sean Curran, the director of the agency, said in a statement, “The US Secret Service is completely involved in prevention, and this investigation, the agency’s director Sean Curran’ın said in a statement, the threats close to our guards will be investigated immediately, will be followed, will follow,” he said.
Authorities also warned about the destruction of the network if the network remains intact. McCool compared the bombing of the Boston Marathon when cellular interruptions and nets that follow the September 11 attacks of the potential impact. In this case, he said that the attackers could force such a closure at a time chosen.
“Could there be others?” “It would be mindless to think that other networks were not made in other cities in the United States.”
