France supermarket hack marks new phase in Iran's shadow war

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France blamed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for cyberattacks that affected supermarket refrigeration systems on October 11 and 12. The attacks spoiled perishable food and mark an expansion of the alleged Iran-linked campaign onto European soil.

The cyberattack on supermarket refrigerators that France has blamed on Iran marks a new phase in the asymmetric campaign Tehran is waging against the United States, extending it onto European soil, analysts say. Scores 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.  France said Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind the "unprecedented" cyberattacks, a charge Iran rejected.