Organized crime technology grows in Sinaloa with the use of jammers

Mexico City.- In the midst of the growing dispute between criminal antagonistic groups for controlling the territories, federal and state authorities have detected an increasingly common use of devices known as jammers, or signal inhibitors, in key areas of the conflict. These devices, illegal in Mexico since 2020, can block mobile communications, WiFi and GPS within a radius of up to 500 meters. According to cybersecurity specialists, jammers a…

In addition to machined drones, improvised explosive devices and hundreds of video surveillance cameras, the federal security cabinet, as well as local authorities, found that in the struggle between Los Chapitos and Los Mayos in Sinaloa, disturbing antennas or semi-fixed jammers are used to block cellular signals within an approximate radius of 500 meters around and disable communication in the areas they attack. Cybersecurity and national secu…