Massive SIM farm taken down in Latvia

[jimbob]

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-pre ... 7-arrested

An action day performed in Latvia on 10 October 2025 led to the arrest of five cybercriminals of Latvian nationality and the seizure of infrastructure used to enable crimes against thousands of victims across Europe. During the operation codenamed ‘SIMCARTEL’, law enforcement arrested two further suspects, took down five servers and seized 1 200 SIM box devices alongside 40 000 active SIM cards.

Video and more details in link

[Martin Y]

Interesting. That's just like a story over on ISF recently about the Feds busting 5 similar sites around New York. The story was spun as its being a potential DDoS weapon ready to be used against the phone network by some enemy state but realistically it was just fake phone numbers farm, providing bulk rental as a service for scammers.

https://internationalskeptics.com/forum ... ce.377462/