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  1. "Europol on Friday announced the disruption of a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that operated a SIM farm and enabled its customers to carry out a broad spectrum of crimes ranging from phishing to investment fraud.

    The coordinated law enforcement effort, dubbed Operation SIMCARTEL, saw 26 searches carried out, resulting in the arrest of seven suspects and the seizure of 1,200 SIM box devices, which contained 40,000 active SIM cards. Five of those detained are Latvian nationals.

    In addition, five servers were dismantled and two websites gogetsms[.]com and apisim[.]com) advertising the service was taken over on October 10, 2025, to display a seizure banner. Separately, four luxury vehicles were confiscated, and €431,000 ($502,000) in suspects' bank accounts and €266,000 ($310,000) in their cryptocurrency accounts were frozen.

    The countries that participated in the operation comprised authorities from Austria, Estonia, Finland, and Latvia, in collaboration with Europol and Eurojust.

    According to Europol, the criminal network has been attributed to more than 1,700 individual cyber fraud cases in Austria and 1,500 in Latvia, leading to losses totaling around €4.5 million ($5.25 million) and €420,000 ($489,000) in the two countries, respectively."

    thehackernews.com/2025/10/euro

    #EU #Europol #CyberCrime #SimCartel

  2. 🚨 Une opération internationale #SIMCARTEL 🇪🇺 🇦🇹 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇱🇻 coordonnée par #Europol a conduit à l’arrestation de sept individus impliqués dans un réseau sophistiqué de cybercrime-as-a-service. Ce groupe proposait des services clés en main pour mener des fraudes, voler des données ou lancer des attaques. L’infrastructure a été démantelée.

    🔍 Saisies : environ 1 200 boîtiers SIM, 40.000 cartes SIM et plusieurs serveurs.

    👉 europol.europa.eu/media-press/

    @cyberfr