The French FM has summoned the Iranian chargé d’affaires over cyberattacks on refrigerators - Reuters

As Reuters agency reports, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has accused the IRGC of involvement in cyberattacks that caused refrigeration systems in stores across Europe to fail.

The minister vowed that the incident would have consequences for Iran and threatened the Islamic Republic with European Union-level sanctions.

Earlier, the newspaper Le Figaro, citing French intelligence, reported that a series of cyberattacks carried out on the night of October 12 was linked to a digital unit of the IRGC. As a result of the incident, the operation of refrigeration systems was disrupted in several hundred supermarkets across France.

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