Executive Summary
France has attributed the October 11–12 attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems to Iran. “I can confirm that this attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of the Islamic Republic of Iran” Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said, according to Le Monde. French Authorities named Shahid Kaveh as the unit responsible. Shahid Kaveh is an offensive cyber unit under Iran’s IRGC Electronic and Cyber Center. The attribution cites infrastructure, tooling, Persian-language traces and a linked propaganda outlet. The technical evidence has not been released. France plans to pursue EU sanctions, and prosecutors have opened a case against the unit’s leadership.
A second wave hit supermarkets in at least nine other European countries on November 2. Pro-Russian hacktivists claimed it, but those claims are unverified and there is no official link to Iran.
