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USA: Authorities smash hacker network in New York in front of the UN debate
Published on September 23, 2025
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In front of the UN Generalbatte Secret Service thwarted attack on New York's telephone network
From AFP, dpa, t -online updated on September 23, 2025 - 6:06 p.m. Reading time: 1 min.
Matt McCool from the Secret Service in front of a screen wall: The authority has not yet commented on the purpose of the telecommunications network.(Source: Richard Drew)
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Around the headquarters of the United Nations in New York, US authorities have discovered a network of 100,000 SIM cards.There are indications of state actors.
According to their own statements, the US authorities smashed a telecommunications network shortly before the UN's general debate began, which could have paralyzed all communication in New York."The potential for the telecommunications in our country cannot be assessed highly enough," said the director of the Secret Service Sean Curran of the "Washington Times".
The network of around 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards would have been able to carry out "anonymous threatening calls", switch off cell phone radio masts and enable encrypted communication between possible "threatening actors" and criminal organizations, the Secret Service said.The city's emergency lines could also have been affected.
In the vicinity of the United Nations
The Secret Service is responsible, among other things, for the security of important major events in the USA.The devices and objects he confiscated had been around 56 kilometers around the United Nations headquarters, the US secret service said.You would now be examined in terms of crime.