{"id":10593,"date":"2025-09-23T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:02:27","slug":"trump-to-address-un-after-secret-service-thwarts-telecommunications-threat-near-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/featured\/trump-to-address-un-after-secret-service-thwarts-telecommunications-threat-near-general-assembly\/njackson\/2025\/09\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump To Address UN After Secret Service Thwarts ‘Telecommunications Threat’ Near General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
On Tuesday, Secret Service\u00a0agents announced they had cracked a plot that could have crippled the telecommunications network in the nation’s largest city, as more than 150 world leaders convene this week in\u00a0New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday that it “dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the\u00a0New York tristate area\u00a0that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials.”<\/p>\n\n\n
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The devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the ongoing\u00a0United Nations General Assembly\u00a0meeting in New York City, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites,” the Secret Service said in a statement. “In addition to carrying out anonymous telephonic threats, these devices could be used to conduct a wide range of telecommunications attacks. This includes disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of services attacks and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“While forensic examination of these devices is ongoing, early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement,” it also said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The\u00a0Department of Homeland Security\u2019s\u00a0Homeland Security Investigations, the Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the New York Police Department and other state and local law enforcement partners are assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n
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“The potential for disruption to our country\u2019s telecommunications posed by this network of devices cannot be overstated,” U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“The U.S. Secret Service\u2019s protective mission is all about prevention, and this investigation makes it clear to potential bad actors that imminent threats to our protectees will be immediately investigated, tracked down and dismantled,” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Secret Service also said: “Given the timing, location and potential for significant disruption to New York telecommunications posed by these devices, the agency moved quickly to disrupt this network.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0is set to address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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