France opens probe into Iranian cyber unit over fridge attacks

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France opened an investigation, alleging that Iran's Revolutionary Guards were responsible for cyberattacks that remotely raised temperatures in supermarket refrigerators. The October attacks spoiled perishable food in some stores, and France said it would pursue European-level sanctions against Tehran.

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. Swathes of French supermarkets were hit in the October 11 and 12 cyberattacks, which raised the temperatures in their refrigerators, in some cases forcing them to throw away entire inventories of perishable food.