🔴 Iran’s Revolutionary Guards behind cyberattacks on supermarket fridges, says French FM

France’s foreign minister has accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of carrying out cyberattacks on supermarket refrigeration systems, calling them unprecedented in scale and aggression. France says it will pursue European sanctions against those responsible and has summoned Iran’s ambassador to protest.

The attacks on 11 and 12 October affected 700 French sites, raising fridge temperatures and spoiling perishable food. Prosecutors have opened an investigation into the IRGC’s Shahid Kaveh cyber unit and its head and two deputies; investigators say attackers remotely triggered prolonged defrost cycles while disabling temperature alerts. Similar freezer-system incidents were reported in at least nine other European countries on 2 November.