Europol’s coordinated law enforcement operation, dubbed Operation SIMCARTEL, has successfully disrupted a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform operating a SIM farm. This platform allowed criminals worldwide to use phone numbers registered to others for various cybercrimes, including phishing, smishing, extortion, investment fraud, and fraudulent schemes. The operation resulted in the arrest of seven (7) individuals, including five (5) Latvian nationals, and the seizure of 1,200 SIM box devices containing 40,000 active SIM cards. Authorities from Austria, Estonia, Finland, and Latvia participated in the operation, dismantling five (5) servers and seizing two (2) websites promoting illegal services. The platform enabled the creation of more than 49 million online accounts, facilitating cyber fraud cases causing financial losses of approximately €5 million ($5.8 million) in Austria and Latvia. The SIM cards, bought from nearly eighty (80) countries, were used to create fake social media accounts, obscuring identities for criminal activities. Europol highlighted the network’s technical sophistication and its global impact, emphasizing the ongoing investigation to uncover the full extent of the network.