
France has formally accused Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of orchestrating cyberattacks on French supermarket refrigeration systems in October, with Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot promising to pursue European-level sanctions against Tehran.
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The incident is described as part of a broader conflict between France and Iran that began in February, involving various cyber disruption incidents.
France on Monday said Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were behind “unprecedented” cyberattacks on supermarket fridges in the country last month, vowing sanctions on a European level against Tehran.
That would make the hacks among the most disruptive cyberattacks of the war with Iran that began in February, a conflict that has been marked by scattered incidents of alleged cyber disruption. These have included disruptions to the Los Angeles transit system in March, to US water treatment plants in July and to ships bound for the United States in August.
“I can confirm that this attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said of the cyberattacks on French supermarkets that occurred October 11 and 12.
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France will propose new sanctions against Iran at the European level.
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