France on Monday blamed Iran for last month’s massive cyberattack on supermarket fridges , summoned the Iranian ambassador and said it would seek European sanctions against those responsible for the attack.
The French Foreign Ministry condemned the attack “in the strongest possible terms,” and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, speaking on the sidelines of G7 talks in Paris, said the Iranian ambassador was being summoned to “strongly protest against this extremely serious act.”
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement that a formal judicial investigation was opened Monday into suspected organised cybercrime with the aggravating circumstance of “having been committed to serve the interests of a foreign power — in this case, Iran. The investigation targets Shahid Kaveh, the leader of an Iranian group described as a “cyber unit” affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as his two deputies and any other individuals who might be identified in connection with the case.
