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Europol Operation SIMCARTEL SIM-farm takedown

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Europol and partner authorities arrested seven suspects and seized a SIM-farm CaaS platform used for phishing and investment fraud, disrupting a cross-border cybercrime service that powered fraudulent account creation and telecom abuse.

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  1. 19.10.2025 09:13 1 articles · 7mo ago

    Website takeover and server dismantlement of GoGetSMS infrastructure

    Legal Policy Action Update

    Authorities took over gogetsms[.]com and apisim[.]com on October 10, 2025, displaying seizure banners and dismantling five servers tied to a SIM-farm cybercrime service used for anonymous communication, fake account creation, and fraud enablement.

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  2. 19.10.2025 09:13 2 articles · 7mo ago

    Europol announces Operation SIMCARTEL disruption

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    Europol announced Operation SIMCARTEL with authorities from Austria, Estonia, Finland, and Latvia and support from Eurojust, describing a SIM-farm CaaS platform used for phishing, smishing, investment fraud, extortion, migrant smuggling, CSAM distribution, and more than 49 million online accounts; the action involved 26 searches, seven arrests, 1,200 SIM box devices, 40,000 active SIM cards, frozen assets, and attributed losses in Austria and Latvia.

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