Iran's Revolutionary Guards hacked French supermarket freezers, Paris says
Iran was behind cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers, Paris says
France has formally blamed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps for a cyber-attack that seized control of digital thermostats in up to 700 supermarkets, driving freezer temperatures from -27C to over 50C and forcing tons of food to be dumped. Paris says the Shahid Kaveh unit left Farsi text and Iranian IP addresses behind, and has opened a criminal probe while promising Europe-wide sanctions. Similar fridge attacks have since hit 11 European countries and a French blood bank.
For the moment they are attacking easy equipment, but as a state group that has the means, the determination and the time, we should be prepared to see attacks on other systems like water or electricity.
- bawolff
huh.
I was betting on it being russia.
As a grey-zone war tactic, i feel like it doesnt super make a lot of sense for iran. France isn't super involved, so its more likely to draw them in then make them think the costs of supporting USA is unacceptable.
On the other hand, not much of Iran's strategy has made much long term sense and more has felt like desperation from a gov that is out of options and wants to go down swinging, so i suppose this fits with that.
- gnabgib
Reuters French officials suspect Iran is behind refrigerator hacks, sources say (3 points, 3 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50427517
BBC France accuses Iran of supermarket fridge hacking (7 points, 2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50428440
gouv.fr French CERT and Foreign Ministry Now Attributing Fridge Attacks to Iran (2 points, 2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50428719
CNN France blames Iran for 'unprecedented' supermarket fridge cyberattack (7 points, 1 hour ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50429252
- pona-a
Does it even matter? If you expose a vulnerable software to the open internet, it's gonna get hacked, and it doesn't matter if it's a script-kiddy from Russia, UK, or a North Korean spy. This was an ethically disclosed vulnerability, patched months before the incident in question. Update your stuff!
- spwa4
Is that surprising? Iran's has now declared they'll fire rockets on European cities the next time anything happens to them, under various circumstances.
They have also proven with the rocket attempt on Diego Garcia to be able to hit 3800km away, which would put every European capital except Madrid, Dublin and Lissabon in range of Iran's rockets (and maybe nukes). And it's not technically confirmed that's their maximum range. Even London is (just barely) in range.
https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/04/iranian-mp-tells-euronew...
(of course emphasizing the usual, namely that anything that happens is Europe's fault, without specifying, of course, what they mean by that. Even on the base issue it's not clear: obviously US uses European bases to supply it's middle eastern ones. Is that a "rocketable" offence? Plus: if Europe makes things difficult for the US, does anyone seriously believe that lowers the risk of an attack?)
Europe is once again under constant threat of rocket and nuke attacks. The "end of history" has been canceled.
This will get a lot worse before it gets better.
- metalman
this is impossible.
Iran simply does not have the excess capacity to perform sophisticated cyber stunts while ther country is under attack and it will be all hands on deck trying to gain intelliegence on impending and ongoing attacks.
this is the most clumsy fake news ever, by a government facing country wide protests about there horrible economic conditions brought on by the various wars bieng pushed by governments in the west.