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The U.S. Secret Service connected Tuesday (September 23, 2025) said it had dismantled a web of much than 1,00,000 SIM cards that could person crashed New York's telecommunications web ahead of the U.N. General Assembly, linking the menace to "nation-state" actors.
"In summation to carrying retired anonymous telephonic threats, these devices could beryllium utilized to behaviour a wide scope of telecommunications attacks," the bureau said successful a statement.
"This includes disabling compartment telephone towers, enabling denial of services attacks and facilitating anonymous, encrypted connection betwixt imaginable menace actors and transgression enterprises."
The U.N.'s high-level wide statement kicks disconnected successful New York connected Tuesday, with U.S. President Donald Trump owed to code the acme connected its archetypal day.
The U.S. Secret Service said the devices it seized were located wrong a 35-mile (56-kilometer) radius of the U.N. General Assembly.
"Given the timing, determination and imaginable for important disruption to New York telecommunications posed by these devices, the bureau moved rapidly to disrupt this network," the connection said.
It said that portion forensic introspection of the devices and a broader probe was ongoing, "early investigation indicates cellular communications betwixt nation-state menace actors and individuals that are known to national instrumentality enforcement."
Images shared by the bureau showed scores of SIM cards connected to telecommunications equipment.
