France accuses Iran of a cyber attack on refrigeration installations in hundreds of supermarkets

The prosecutor's office in Paris announced the initiation of proceedings against the head and two deputy heads of the Shahid Kaveh group, linked to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. According to investigators, this group specializes in cyber offensives and is directly related to the Iranian cyber-electronic center.

Minister for Digital Transformation Jean-Noel Barrot announced that those responsible for the cyberattack will be subject to sanctions at the European Union level. He emphasized that the hackers' actions were a serious violation of France's national interests.

The attack took place on the night of October 12-13, when the temperature in refrigeration installations increased in several hundred supermarkets throughout the country. These systems were managed by the Danish company Danfoss, which reported after the incident that the attack only affected older, unupdated versions of the software.

The cyberattack coincided with growing diplomatic tensions between France and Iran. A few days before the incident, the Iranian ambassador in Paris was summoned to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with publications criticizing the actions of the French authorities on social media.