On Monday, France accused Iran for being behind October’s cyberattack on supermarket refrigerators. The country took the drastic step of summoning the Iranian ambassador. France stated it would ask for European sanctions against the entities responsible for the cyberattack.

On October 12, a cyberattack drastically increased refrigerator temperatures. The attack impacted around 700 of France’s 10,000 supermarkets. Prosecutors in Paris stated that they determined that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was the mastermind behind the large-scale attack.

France’s national cybersecurity agency, ANSSI, stated that the attack was executed by the Shahid Kaveh group, described as a “cyber unit” affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Investigators found that the attackers had utilized Farsi and IP addresses linked to devices located in Iran.

In the early hours of Oct. 12, cyberattackers remotely took control of refrigeration systems in hundreds of supermarkets and independent stores across France. Temperatures reached 50 Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) for about 6 hours, forcing stores to discard fresh and frozen goods. The Intermarché supermarket chain reported losses of “tens of millions of euros” in a single day.

In a statement released on Tuesday, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that it categorically rejected the accusations made by France, labeling them “baseless and malicious.”

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