France blames Iran for cyberattack on supermarkets
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Monday that a cyber unit linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was behind the cyberattack on supermarket refrigeration systems on 11 and 12 October. He called it the first large-scale cyberattack carried out for sabotage purposes on French territory. According to Al Jazeera, more than 1,000 stores were affected, including those of the E.Leclerc, Intermarché, Carrefour, Monoprix and Coopérative U chains, while a report cited by Reuters mentions 700 commercial sites and at least 15 fires. According to Barrot, Iran's ambassador has been summoned, and sanctions will be required at the European level. Reuters notes that Iran usually denies carrying out malicious cyber operations.
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