France opens investigation, 'hypothesis: Iran's hand behind hacker attacks on refrigerators'

The French judiciary has opened an investigation into the head of the Iranian group Shahid Kaveh, i.e. the cyber unit of the Pasdaran, suspecting that he is behind the cyber attacks that last month knocked out refrigerators and freezers in supermarkets across the country. This was announced by the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau.

"A judicial investigation has been opened against the head of the Iranian group Shahid Kaveh - states the magistrate - an offensive cyber unit affiliated to the Electronic and Cybernetic Center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC-CEC), against his two deputies and against any other individual who can be identified". "The French services are able to attribute the attack, launched on the night between 11 and 12 October against several hundred supermarkets and their refrigeration systems, to the cybernetic center of the Revolutionary Guard Corps of the Islamic Republic of Iran", reports a source close to the dossier, quoted by Le Figaro.

Also according to the transalpine newspaper, the J3 section of the Paris Prosecutor's Office, specialized in the fight against cybercrime, has started investigations into the case. Also other European countries, including Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany and Portugal. have recently suffered cyber attacks against refrigeration systems or the cold chain.