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. Investigators from Austria, Estonia and Latvia, together with their colleagues at Europol und ...| Europol
The offenders targeted Ukraine and supporting countries, including many EU Member States. Between 14 and 17 July, a joint international operation, known as Eastwood and coordinated by Europol, targeted the pro-Russian cybercrime network NoName057(16). The actions led to the shutdown of several hundred servers worldwide, while the group's central server infrastructure was taken offline.| Europol