A telecommunications network posing a threat to senior United States officials at the United Nations General Assembly meeting this week has been “dismantled,” the Secret Service announced on Tuesday.

If successful, the network of electronic devices would have disabled cellphone towers and effectively shut down the cellular network in New York City . It would also have enabled denial of services attacks and facilitated anonymous, encrypted communications between threat actors and criminal enterprises.

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