France says IRGC hit 700 sites in October fridge attacks
Original title: France Blames Iran for the Supermarket Fridge Attacks
Prosecutors are investigating Shahid Kaveh's leadership, while a November wave in nine countries remains unattributed.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked French supermarket refrigerators on October 11 and 12, hitting 700 sites and raising temperatures. Some stores discarded all perishable stock, and fires broke out in several. Paris prosecutors opened a case against the head of Shahid Kaveh and two deputies. On November 2, supermarkets in at least nine other European countries reported suspected freezer attacks, which Barrot did not attribute.
Unconfirmed: The article treats Iran's role as an official claim whose technical evidence is not published, and the November wave is not officially tied to Iran.
- Attribution cites shared infrastructure, attack tools, Persian-language traces and a linked outlet.
- Kaja Kallas said she had only just learned of France's attribution.
- A November 5 CISA and FBI fact sheet describes exposed or unpatched controller abuse.
- Listed entry paths are authentication bypass, code injection and weak settings.
- Barrot spoke only about the French case, not the later European wave.
Impact: Raised fridge temperatures, spoiling food and causing fires
- 1.Keep controllers off the internet or put an updated firewall in front of remote access.
- 2.Segment devices, change default passwords, add phishing-resistant MFA, and patch or replace unsupported gear.
- 3.Allowlist who can change settings, set safe limits, and alert on deviations.
- Threat actors
- Islamic Revolutionary Guard CorpsShahid Kaveh
From the original article
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France blames Iran for supermarket fridge attacks. What’s known, what remains unclear, and how to secure exposed controllers. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind the attacks on supermarket fridges in France on 11 and 12 October.
By Pierluigi Paganini · securityaffairs.com
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