France Accuses Iran's Revolutionary Guards of Supermarket Fridge Cyberattacks, Summons Ambassador and Vows EU Sanctions
PARIS — French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot confirmed on November 9 that the cyberattacks that knocked out commercial refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets on October 11 and 12 were carried out by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He called the attack unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression.
Barrot said the Iranian ambassador had been summoned to the French foreign ministry, and that France would implement sanctions at the European level against all those responsible for the attack.
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said a judicial investigation had been opened into the head of the Shahid Kaveh unit, an offensive cyber unit affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards' Electronic and Cyber Centre, and his two deputies. AFP reported that prosecutors have requested international arrest warrants against the three men.
The October attacks overrode the temperature controls of commercial fridges at hundreds of establishments, causing fires at some stores and large-scale food losses. Iran's mission to the United Nations did not return messages seeking comment; Iran has routinely denied carrying out malicious cyber operations.
GSM previously reported the fridge attacks themselves and a further wave across several European countries. The French government's public attribution, the summoning of the ambassador and the opening of a judicial investigation are new developments in the case.
(Source: Reuters)
Source: Reuters
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Photo: 图：超市冷冻货架（资料图）。摄影：Phillip Pessar，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A supermarket freezer aisle (file photo). Photo by Phillip Pessar, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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