BBC News reports:

France has accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of being behind cyber-attacks that raised the temperatures of supermarket fridges and freezers across the country last month.

Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the attack was “unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression”, adding those who were responsible would be hit with sanctions.

Iran has yet to respond officially, but some Iranian media outlets have dismissed the allegations as baseless.

The French hacking, which led to the destruction of tons of frozen and chilled food in France was followed by a similar attack against supermarkets across several other European countries. It is not known if the instances are linked.

Barrot said the attack on France’s supermarkets “marks the first large-scale cyber-attack aimed at sabotage on our national territory, and it constitutes a major attack on the nation’s interests and the security of the French people”.

He said the government had summoned the Iranian ambassador to Paris to “lodge a very strong protest against this extremely grave act”. [Continue reading…]