The Secret Service has dismantled a network of sophisticated devices in the New York area that posed a serious threat to officials ahead of a UN General Assembly meeting this week.

The devices were ‘concentrated’ within a 35-mile radius of the meeting today, where US president Donald Trump is due to deliver a speech.

Early analysis has found these cellular communications were between ‘nation-state threat actors and individuals known to federal law enforcement’.

More than 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards were seized to stop the imminent threat to protective operations. One network was said to be capable of sending 30,000,000 texts per minute.

International security expert Will Geddes told Metro he believes the planned attack was likely a distributed denial of service, or DDOS.

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