France says Iran behind 'unprecedented' cyberattacks on fridges

France on Monday said Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind cyberattacks on supermarket fridges in the country last month, vowing sanctions on a European level against Tehran over the first such large-scale cyber sabotage on French territory.



Numerous French supermarkets were hit in the Oct 11 and 12 cyberattacks, which raised the temperatures in their refrigerators, in some cases forcing them to throw away entire inventories of perishable food.



"I can confirm that this attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said of the cyberattacks.



The cyber monitoring centre of four French security agencies said the unit is better known in the cyber world as CyberAveng3rs, its avatar through which it has claimed attacks in the past.