Secret Service Dismantled A Cyberterrorism Operation In New York Tied To A Foreign Nation That Used Devices To Target White House & Government Officials & Were Capable Of Crippling Telecom Systems — This Comes After Israel’s Top Cyber Directorate Official Flew To New York & Spent 3 Months In The U.S. Before Authorities Arrested Him For A Child Sex Crime!
The Secret Service dismantled a network of more than 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards in the New York-area that were capable of crippling telecom systems & made threats to government officials including two White House staffers. The operation has been tied to at least one foreign nation & aligns with the same time period the Executive Director of Israel’s Cyber Directorate, Tom Alexandrovich, was in the country including New York before authorities arrested him for attempting to arrange sex aka rape a child.
Initial analysis of the data on some of the SIM cards has identified ties to at least one foreign nation, as well as links to criminals already known to U.S. law enforcement officials, including cartel members, Secret Service officials told reporters on Monday in a call previewing Tuesday’s announcement.
Investigators found the SIM cards and servers in August at several locations within a 35-mile radius of the United Nations headquarters. The discovery followed a monthslong investigation into what the agency described as anonymous “telephonic threats” made to three high-level U.S. government officials this spring — one official in the Secret Service and two who work at the White House, one of the officials said.
The scale of the equipment discovered suggests the network could be part of a nation’s surveillance operation, experts said.
Anthony J. Ferrante, the global head of the cybersecurity practice at FTI, an international consulting firm, said the operation appeared to be sophisticated and costly.
“My instinct is this is espionage,” Ferrante, who previously served in top cybersecurity positions at the White House and the F.B.I., told the New York Times.
James A. Lewis, a cybersecurity researcher at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, said that only a handful of countries could pull off such an operation, including Russia, China and Israel, according to the New York Times.
Alexandrovich was arrested on Aug. 7 for trying to arrange sex with a child via a computer in Las Vegas. Alexandrovich told authorities he had been in the U.S. for 3 months — going back to May — and his trip began in New York.
What was an alleged criminal child sex predator who is in a senior position with Israel’s Cyber Directorate — a unit whose office is located within Benjamin Netanyahu’s office — doing in the U.S. for three months aside from allegedly trying to rape American children? Was Alexandrovich involved in this foreign-linked cyberterrorism & espionage operation?
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