Re:US Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications ...
by julianeon on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:04AM
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This is pretty low on information but maybe that's how it has to be, since there probably is a tradeoff between covering the investigation & revealing investigative methods that should be kept private.
Re:US Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications ...
by sunscream89 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:55AM
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They were running an extortion and intimidation campaigns.
Remember when Trump was running the second time? Those white Americans who were calling people all throughout America with those moronic threatening messages?
Until it happens to you or yours it is hard to comprehend.
Re:US Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications ...
by delfinom on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:57AM
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Were they? I haven't seen that stated anywhere. The news report from NYTimes does say "the cartels were using it too".
>One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said agents also found 80 grams of cocaine, illegal firearms, computers and cellphones when they discovered the network.
Sounds like literally a mobile botnet and it was probably just leased out access to a range of users.
Leasing access to botnets and other resources is 1000% normal in the "crime web" and is a business in of itself rather than being directly part of the crimes.
On top of that, a "nation state" attacker isn't going to be giving their employees cocaine, unless its Hamas lolololol.
Re:US Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications ...
by engineer_22 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:01AM
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> Remember when Trump was running the second time? Those white Americans who were calling people all throughout America with those moronic threatening messages?
Re:US Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications ...
by slater on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @01:00PM
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We tried, but that provided the right wing folks with their boogie-man du jour, labelled as "woke" and "DEI" (pejoratively by them), and the baby boomers were all "nuh-uh, that'd help THOSE PEOPLE! we can't have that!" and that was that.
Re:US Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications ...
by toss1 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @10:50AM
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>>...early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.
>>These devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the United Nations General Assembly now underway in New York City. Given the timing, location and potential for significant disruption to New York telecommunications posed by these devices, the agency moved quickly to disrupt this network.
What nation-state actor might want to disrupt a major US city during a meeting of the UN General Assembly?
Re:US Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications ...
by stubish on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:32AM
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There is no claim that it had anything to do with the UN General Assembly ('within 35 miles' covers a lot more than the UN General Assembly). They do say senior US officials were targeted.
Re:US Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications ...
by toss1 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:24PM
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Umm, that claim is literally a cut-and-paste quote from the US Secret Service announcement (which is why I inserted the ">>" at the beginning of the paragraph to signify the quotation).
So YES, there is a specific claim, and it came directly from the USSS, in the exact article heading this topic. The USSS does not merely toss in observations without a basis in their working threat model (unless they've changed since I worked adjacent to them). It may indeed turn out to be unrelated, but the USSS is publicly stating they are treating it as more than a coincidence.
Re:US Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications ...
by sunscream89 on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @09:26AM
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Well, that is news.
The pictures of the confiscated equipment is every phone phreaks orgiastic wet dreams.
It is interesting that these sorts of things are going on in the first world, and until discovered anyone vocalizing suspicions of such a thing would be regarded as a paranoid delusional crackpot.
Provides evidence
"No, not that evidence"
No thank you.
Edit: removed tracking id
This was probably just a phone botnet for online botting purposes, where you want IP addresses in not-obviously-third-world bot countries.
Remember when Trump was running the second time? Those white Americans who were calling people all throughout America with those moronic threatening messages?
Until it happens to you or yours it is hard to comprehend.
May the Internet gods provide an audio link.
>One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said agents also found 80 grams of cocaine, illegal firearms, computers and cellphones when they discovered the network.
Sounds like literally a mobile botnet and it was probably just leased out access to a range of users.
Leasing access to botnets and other resources is 1000% normal in the "crime web" and is a business in of itself rather than being directly part of the crimes.
On top of that, a "nation state" attacker isn't going to be giving their employees cocaine, unless its Hamas lolololol.
I've never heard of this, do you have a source?
https://www.nysenate.gov/sites/default/files/admin/structure...
Anyone can only catch “one or two” at a time.
The White House just buried its report on white terror in America.
Let me guess, you’ve never heard of it?
Sarcasm aside, the problem is far worse than one could imagine or anecdotally discuss on HN.
What do you mean by that?
>>These devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the United Nations General Assembly now underway in New York City. Given the timing, location and potential for significant disruption to New York telecommunications posed by these devices, the agency moved quickly to disrupt this network.
What nation-state actor might want to disrupt a major US city during a meeting of the UN General Assembly?
So YES, there is a specific claim, and it came directly from the USSS, in the exact article heading this topic. The USSS does not merely toss in observations without a basis in their working threat model (unless they've changed since I worked adjacent to them). It may indeed turn out to be unrelated, but the USSS is publicly stating they are treating it as more than a coincidence.
The pictures of the confiscated equipment is every phone phreaks orgiastic wet dreams.
It is interesting that these sorts of things are going on in the first world, and until discovered anyone vocalizing suspicions of such a thing would be regarded as a paranoid delusional crackpot.