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Secret Service takes down network that could have crippled New York cell service
US agency dismantled hidden telecom network that would have unleashed chaos ahead of UN general assembly
Coming as foreign leaders filled midtown hotels and motorcades clogged Manhattan, officials on Tuesday said the takedown highlights a new frontier of risk: plots aimed at the invisible infrastructure that keeps a modern city connected. Bloomberg noted that it was unclear if the so-called “smishing” network was linked to incidents earlier this year when there were attempts to impersonate White house chief of staff Susie Wiles and secretary of state Marco Rubio. A US state department cable sent over the summer that an unknown person left voice and text messages for at least five people, including “three foreign ministers, a US governor and a US member of Congress” after creating a Signal account that falsely posed as Rubio’s.
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