France vows retaliation against Iran following cyberattack on refrigerators
France has vowed to take all necessary measures, including some it won’t publicly disclose, in response to cyberattacks it blames on Iran. The attacks, which targeted hundreds of connected refrigerators in supermarkets in October, were officially attributed to a cyber unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as Shahid Kaveh.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot stated on Tuesday that France “doesn’t rule anything out” in its response to Tehran. He emphasized that French cyber defense doctrine allows authorities to take actions, even if the specifics aren’t revealed.
“We will take all measures, including those we will not make public, which we deem proportionate and necessary to deter any new attack and sanction those responsible for this unacceptable aggression,” Barrot told FranceinfoTV.
The aim, he said, is to deter anyone in Iran or elsewhere from replicating the attacks.
While France has formally accused Iran of the supermarket refrigerator attacks, investigations are ongoing regarding potential Iranian involvement in cyberattacks targeting a blood collection service provider, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa bank, and the French tax authority. Minister Barrot declined to comment on those specific investigations.
The Paris prosecutor’s office has requested international arrest warrants for two leaders of the Shahid Kaveh unit.
Source
“Cyberattaque contre des frigos : la France "ne s'interdit rien" dans la riposte contre l'Iran, avertit son che”
Read the original report (in French) ↗This story was written with the help of AI from the original report credited above and published after automatic checks. No person read it before publication. Errors reported to us are corrected and listed on our corrections page. Read our editorial policy · Report an error · Corrections
Read next
Senator calls for Nvidia CEO’s resignation amid espionage allegations
Republican Senator Kevin Cramer is urging Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to resign, citing national security concerns related to an alleged affair with a…
Related
Caught up in five lines
The Brief: the day’s biggest business stories, written by our desk at and .