‘It can’t be understated what this system is capable of doing’.

Those were the sobering words of special agent Matt McCool, whose Secret Service team dismantled a network of sophisticated devices in New York ahead of the UN General Assembly meeting this week.

The clandestine network of SIM servers and cards was positioned to knock out cell service and target protective missions near the United Nations.

The impact of such a plot could have been ‘catastrophic’.

Nation-state threat actors known to federal law enforcement are believed to be behind the threat.

‘The potential for disruption to our country’s telecommunications posed by this network of devices cannot be overstated,’ Secret Service Director Sean Curran said.

‘This investigation makes it clear to potential bad actors that immi

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