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The Secret Service seized a network capable of shutting down New York City's cell service


It included over 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards.

A Secret Service official told The New York Times that it was powerful enough to send 30 million anonymous text messages per minute. He said an early analysis points to communications between at least one foreign country and "individuals that are known to federal law enforcement," which reportedly includes cartel members. Cybersecurity researcher James A. Lewis told The New York Times that only a handful of countries were capable of pulling that off, including Russia, China and Israel.

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