A unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRGC) is responsible for a massive cyber attack on European retailers which led to the loss of millions of Euros of food last month.
\n\nA massive, if comparatively unsophisticated hack of the software controlling supermarket chillers across several European states last month was the work of Iranian saboteurs working for the IRGC, the French government has said.
\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot was unequivocal in his remarks, stating not that the security services had their suspicions, but that they were certain that Iran was responsible. He said: “I can confirm that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran is responsible for this attack. It is an attack of unprecedented scale and aggression”, reports the BBC.
\n\nBarrot said the “destabilisation” attack, which caused fridges in hundreds of supermarkets across Europe to go into self-cleaning mode, destroying the food within with high heat, was the first time a large-scale cyberattack had committed sabotage on French territory against “the nation’s interests and the security of the French people.”
\n\nWhile the Iranian ambassador had been summoned for a dressing down, perhaps more importantly Barrot’s ministry added it reserved the right…
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