Cybercrime infrastructure

Operation SIMCARTEL

An international action dismantled infrastructure used to provide fraudulent SIM services. Europol reported seven arrests, five seized servers, roughly 1,200 SIM boxes, and 40,000 active SIM cards.

Collection details

Reference date: 10 October 2025
Category: Cybercrime infrastructure
Videos: 2
Images: 5
Documents: 0
Archive source: OperationArchive / Dark Web Informer

Videos (2)

Operation SIMCARTEL seizure footageHD · 1280 × 720 · 2:04 · 11.4 MB Codec: H264 / AAC Open original · Download SHA-256: ec8a641d5fa1b1cc815ae9411638dbf1a4daa268baf546d2646c10c0af0a6650

Operation SIMCARTEL operational footageFull HD · 1920 × 1080 · 2:08 · 35.8 MB Codec: H264 / AAC Open original · Download SHA-256: 019c00c895701851112ab1c5ac01f43630aa22cb436f42524207f2cf9e1ab569

Images (5)

**OP-SIMCARTEL-2 0** Original · 1600 × 1200 · 130 KB Open original · Download SHA-256: 7878a80a6d19229c1c6cb8ae242726297749d28d08008b4a165a362caec42662

**OP-SIMCARTEL-3** Original · 1536 × 2048 · 542 KB Open original · Download SHA-256: 348868a8a0b215085fe19b39ce74f2ac568e59e8985d1f5712113ee11e0b4b75

**OP-SIMCARTEL-5** Original · 1600 × 1200 · 187 KB Open original · Download SHA-256: 8b71ac074b13410ab4fae42435aa67226d596f6ad53e277070008be5a54f20ea

**OP-SIMCARTEL-6** Original · 1518 × 1200 · 160 KB Open original · Download SHA-256: dd7a77a956a705adb0ba47757e32113df8a81bd921e92af4f42f27bb19a2b800

**OP-SIMCARTEL-7** Original · 1600 × 1072 · 185 KB Open original · Download SHA-256: fe5d4fac6ed4133a96a34396e167ba06e0dee02a71b0d2f694719fe3eb3bfb23

Context sources

Europol →

OpenSpy uses these sources for event context. File integrity metadata describes the archived bytes; it does not independently prove every claim in the source folder title.