The U.S. Secret Service has announced that, following a monthlong investigation, it has carried out an operation which resulted in the dismantling of a network consisting of more than 300 SIM Servers and 100,000 SIM Cards at multiple sites across New York and New York City, all within a 35-mile radius of this week’s United Nations General Assembly. 

According to officials, the network could interfere with emergency response services, conduct encrypted communication, jam cellular networks in New York, as well as disrupt official communication from and eavesdrop on the U.N. General Assembly, capable of sending over thirty-million text messages per minute, anonymously. The official said the agency had never before seen such an extensive operation.

The Secret Service believes that the scale of the equipment discovered suggests the network could be part of a nation’s surveillance operation, with initial analysis of the data on some of the SIM Cards having identified ties to at least one foreign nation, as well as links to criminals, including the members of Cartels, already known to be operating in the United States. Cybersecurity experts have stated that only a handful of countries could pull off such an operation, including Russia, China and Israel.

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