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In September 2025, the [[U.S. Secret Service]] dismantled a SIM box operation in the [[New York metropolitan area]], seizing over 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers capable of sending 30 million anonymous text messages per minute, jamming cellular networks, and disrupting [[Emergency service|emergency services]]. The network, uncovered during an investigation into [[Nuisance call|telephonic threats]] against senior U.S. officials, was linked to foreign [[espionage]] and criminal [[Cartel|cartels]], with equipment stored within 35 miles of the [[headquarters of the United Nations]] amid preparations for the annual [[UN General Assembly|General Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-09-23 |title=Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/politics/secret-service-sim-cards-servers-un.html |access-date=2025-10-17 |language=en}}</ref>
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In September 2025, the [[U.S. Secret Service]] dismantled a SIM box operation in the [[New York metropolitan area]], seizing over 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers capable of sending 30 million anonymous text messages per minute, jamming cellular networks, and disrupting [[Emergency service|emergency services]]. The network, uncovered during an investigation into [[Nuisance call|telephonic threats]] against senior U.S. officials, was linked to foreign [[espionage]] and criminal [[Cartel|cartels]], with equipment stored within 35 miles of the [[headquarters of the United Nations]] amid preparations for the annual [[UN General Assembly|General Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-09-23 |title=Cache of Devices Capable of Crashing Cell Network Is Found Near U.N. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/politics/secret-service-sim-cards-servers-un.html |access-date=2025-10-17 |language=en}}</ref>
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On October 10, 2025, [[Europol]] Operation SIMCARTEL culminated in Latvia with the arrest of five and the seizure of 1,200 SIM boxes operating 40,000 SIM cards
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On October 10, 2025, [[Europol]] Operation SIMCARTEL culminated in Latvia with the arrest of five and the seizure of 1,200 SIM boxes operating 40,000 SIM cards and hundreds of thousands more SIM cards, dismantling a network that supplied phone numbers from over 80 countries. Coordinated by Europol, [[Eurojust]], and investigators from [[Austria]], [[Estonia]], [[Latvia]], and [[Finland]], the action involved 26 searches the takedown of websites gogetsms.com and apisim.com. The network enabled over 49 million fake online accounts, facilitating [[phishing]], [[Phishing|smishing]], [[investment fraud]], daughter-son scams, fake shops and banks, [[Police impersonation|impersonation of police]], [[extortion]], [[migrant smuggling]], and [[child sexual abuse material]] distribution losses €4.5 million in Austria and €420,000 in Latvia from 1,700 and 1,500 cases respectively, and total damages in the millions of euros across thousands of European victims.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cybercrime-as-a-service takedown: 7 arrested – Operation takes down sophisticated criminal network that enabled criminals to commit serious crimes across Europe |url=https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cybercrime-service-takedown-7-arrested |archive-url=://web.archive.org/web//https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cybercrime-service-takedown-7-arrested |archive-date=2025– |access-date=2025-10-17 |website=Europol |language=en}}</ref>
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