France blames Iran Revolutionary Guards for supermarket fridge cyberattacks

Foreign minister confirms Iranian responsibility

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot confirmed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps carried out the cyberattacks on October 11 and 12. He stated the attack was unprecedented in scale and aggression while vowing sanctions at the European level against Tehran. France summoned Iran's ambassador to the foreign ministry over these disruptive incidents affecting commercial refrigeration systems nationwide.

Prosecutors open investigation into suspects

Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau announced a judicial probe against the head of an Iranian cyber unit called Shahid Kaveh and his deputies. French prosecutors suspect hundreds of supermarkets were affected by remote temperature changes that forced stock removal and store closures. Some fridges caught fire due to extreme heat while employees discarded perished meat and melted ice cream.

Second wave hits blood banks

A second wave of hacking this month impacted more than 100 establishments across Europe including French blood bank refrigerators. Employees moved blood to other cold storage units after the systems failed again in recent days. Experts noted many stricken units ran outdated firmware which could have made them easy targets for hackers.