France says Iran behind 'unprecedented' cyberattacks on fridges
France on Monday said Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind cyberattacks on supermarket fridges in the country last month, vowing sanctions on a European level against Tehran over the first such large-scale cyber sabotage on French territory. Numerous French supermarkets were hit in the October 11 and 12 cyberattacks, which raised the temperatures in their refrigerators, in some cases forcing…
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced on Monday that Iran's Revolutionary Guards were responsible for unprecedented cyberattacks targeting supermarket refrigerators across France. The attacks, which occurred on October 11th and 12th, raised the temperature in the refrigerators and forced some stores to discard large amounts of perishable food.
Barrot stated that these attacks represented the first large-scale cyber sabotage on French soil and vowed that the European Union would impose sanctions against Tehran in response. The Paris prosecutor has opened an investigation into Shahid Kaveh, a secretive cyber unit of the IRGC, also known as CyberAveng3rs. This marks the first major cyberattack aimed at sabotage on French national territory.
The incident has shaken Europe at a time when officials are already concerned about the threat of cyberattacks from Russia.
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