Europol dismantles SIM box operation renting numbers for cybercrime

Interresting in the light other similar services used in the privacy domain.

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In an announcement today, Europol says that the cybercrime service operated through two websites, gogetsms.com and apisim.com, which have been seized and now display a law enforcement banner.

I was actively seeking out privacy options for mobile internet, but I knew nothing about the service that was exposed this time. After looking into it, I found it was being advertised on several hacker forums.

Their exposure might have involved something beyond simply providing SIM/SMS services for privacy aspects. For example, there could have been links to criminal organizations in their funding sources, or their SIM procurement methods might have been illegal.