'Carried out by IRGC': France blames Iran for cyber-attacks on supermarket refrigerators, opens probe

"I can confirm that this attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said of the cyberattacks on French supermarkets that occurred October 11 and 12. "This attack is unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression," he added. "We will implement sanctions at the European level against all those responsible for this attack," he said. "A judicial investigation has been opened against the head of the Iranian group Shahid Kaveh, an offensive cyber unit affiliated with the Electronic and Cyber Center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC-CEC), against his two deputies, and against any other individuals who may be identified," Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.