France blames Iran's Revolutionary Guard for the supermarket fridge attacks and says some caused fires

On Monday, France publicly blamed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for the October 12 cyberattack on refrigeration systems at about 700 of the country's 10,000 supermarkets. It is the first official attribution of the attacks. A five-page report from France's Cyber Crisis Coordination Centre named the attackers as part of Shahid Kaveh, an IRGC cyber unit previously linked to attacks on industrial controllers at US water utilities. The centre brings together the national cybersecurity agency ANSSI, the military's cyber command, and the DGSE and DGSI intelligence services. Paris prosecutors also said the Revolutionary Guard was behind the attack. The Record reports that French authorities say the sabotage caused extensive food losses and at least 15 fires. Victims included large chains as well as butchers, a slaughterhouse and cooperative food-processing plants. Speaking at G7 talks in Paris, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot called it the first large-scale cyber sabotage attack on French soil and said it "will not go unanswered." France summoned the Iranian ambassador and will pursue European sanctions against those responsible. The attribution follows a second wave of attacks on more than 100 European stores and a joint US warning from five agencies about attacks on refrigeration controllers.