France blames Iran unit for hacks that hit 700 cold-storage sites
What's next: Paris summoned Iran's ambassador and threatened further EU sanctions after at least 15 fires and widespread food losses.
France accused an Iranian Revolutionary Guards-linked cyber unit of carrying out October attacks on commercial refrigerators and freezers that disrupted roughly 700 sites nationwide, including supermarkets, butcher shops, a slaughterhouse and food-processing factories. French officials said the hackers seized temperature-control software on Oct. 11, ruining chilled goods and in some cases raising temperatures enough to spark at least 15 fires. A French report tied the campaign to the Shahid Kaveh unit and named Hamid Reza Lashgarian, Mahdi Lashgarian and Reza Salarvand. Paris summoned Iran's ambassador and warned of possible EU sanctions. A second wave in November struck more than 100 establishments across Europe, including blood-bank refrigeration in France.