Massive telecom threat capable of jamming cell service dismantled, as world leaders gather at UN

The U.S. Secret Service has dismantled a massive hidden telecom network in New York. Investigators say the system could have crippled cell towers and jammed 911 calls.

The Associated Press

While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the UN 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 disabled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.

The cache, made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations, represents one of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on U.S. soil. Investigators warn the syste