According to the United States Secret Service, as well as anonymous telephone threats, the devices ‘could be used to make a wide range of telecommunications attacks’
The secret service of He informed, on Tuesday (23), that he dismantled a network with more than 100,000 SIM cards that could have damaged the New York telecommunications network before the General Assembly of .
“In addition to making anonymous telephone threats, these devices could be used to make a wide range of telecommunications attacks,” including “disable cellular towers,” the agency said in a statement.
The devices were found within 56 kilometers from the United Nations General Assembly. “Given the moment, the location and potential of significant interruption of the New York telecommunications network that these devices represented, the agency acted quickly to stop this network,” the statement said.
*With information from AFP
