The Secret Service said Tuesday it dismantled a network of hundreds of servers capable of interrupting telecommunications across the tristate area during the United Nations General Assembly this week.

Agents found more than 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites within 35 miles of the U.N.’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters, according to a release from the agency. This network could have been used to knock cellphone towers offline, enable encrypted communications among bad actors and carry out anonymous digital attacks that overwhelm services, officials said.

The Secret Service said the investigation is ongoing, but it found preliminary signs of “cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals known to federal law enforcement.” The agency did n

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