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🔴 Iran's Revolutionary Guards behind cyberattacks on supermarket fridges, says French FM

🔴 Iran's Revolutionary Guards behind cyberattacks on supermarket fridges, says French FM

Summary

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of carrying out cyberattacks on French supermarket refrigeration units on October 11 and 12, 2026. He said France would pursue European-level sanctions against those responsible, while prosecutors in Paris opened a judicial investigation into the Iranian cyber unit Shahid Kaveh and others.

Key Facts

  • Barrot said the attacks targeted French supermarkets on October 11 and 12.
  • He attributed the attacks to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
  • Barrot said France would seek sanctions at the European level against those responsible.
  • The Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into Shahid Kaveh, described as an offensive cyber unit affiliated with the Guards’ Electronic and Cyber Centre.
  • The investigation also covers two deputies of the unit’s leader and any other people identified.
  • The prosecutor’s office said it had requested international arrest warrants against the unit’s leader.
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