Secret telecom network near UN could’ve shut down NYC phones Associated Press Published: September 23, 2025 Servers on desks at the location where they were seized by the Secret Service (U.S. Secret Service via AP)

🚨 Massive covert telecom network with 100,000+ SIM cards found near the UN

🚨 System could have crippled NYC cell towers and jammed 911 calls

🚨 Authorities suspect nation-state actors behind encrypted operations

While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerabl

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