The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Iranian ambassador to Paris on Tuesday, protesting a cyberattack that targeted cooling systems in hundreds of French stores last October, with France accusing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard of being behind these attacks.
Reuters quoted French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot as saying in statements to France Info TV that France will take all measures it deems appropriate and necessary to deter any future attacks, including measures that may not be publicly announced. Barrot clarified that the goal is to "deter any party, whether in Iran or elsewhere, that may dare to repeat such an act," noting that Paris will work to impose European sanctions against those responsible for the attack.
For her part, the Paris prosecutor, Laurence Bichon, announced on Monday the opening of a judicial investigation into the attacks, targeting officials in the "Shahid Kaveh" cyber unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, explaining that the unit is linked to the Guard's Electronic and Cyber Center.
The attacks, which occurred on October 11 and 12, targeted approximately 700 stores in France, with perpetrators remotely controlling cooling systems and raising temperatures inside refrigerators, forcing affected stores to dispose of large quantities of fresh and frozen food. On November 2, cyberattacks suspected of targeting cooling systems in stores in at least nine other European countries were reported, without confirming their link to the attacks in France.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
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