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fromThe Hacker News
3 hours ago

Europol Dismantles SIM Farm Network Powering 49 Million Fake Accounts Worldwide

Law enforcement disrupted a SIM-farm CaaS platform, arresting seven suspects, seizing 1,200 SIM-box devices and freezing substantial assets.
fromWIRED
3 weeks ago

'SIM Farms' Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds Say

Due to the sheer scale of the infrastructure of this single SIM farm-and the fact that it reportedly came onto the Secret Service's radar after it was exploited in "swatting" attacks that targeted US members of Congress around Christmas of 2023-the agency has warned that the operation, which has been at least partially dismantled, posed a serious threat of a disruptive attack on cellular service.
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