🇫🇷France is seeking 🇪🇺European Union sanctions against 🇮🇷Iran after accusing Tehran of orchestrating a massive cyberattack that sabotaged commercial refrigerators and freezers across the country. The 🇫🇷French Foreign Ministry formally summoned Iran’s ambassador to Paris to protest the incident.
The attack struck internet-connected cooling systems at roughly 700 🇫🇷French retailers—including major chains like Carrefour, Monoprix, and Netto—in October 2026. Hackers remotely raised fridge and freezer temperatures up to 50°C, spoiling fresh and frozen food and causing tens of millions of euros in damage.
A second wave of similar attacks hit more than 100 establishments across at least 9 other 🇪🇺European countries. 🇫🇷French blood banks were also impacted, forcing staff to transfer blood supplies to alternative cold storage.
🇫🇷French officials attributed the sabotage to Shahid Kaveh, an offensive cyber unit linked to 🇮🇷Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Investigators traced the breach using Iranian IP addresses and Farsi text left within the systems.
🇫🇷Paris prosecutors opened a formal sabotage investigation and requested international arrest warrants for the leader and two deputies of the Shahid Kaveh unit.
🇮🇷Tehran has not yet issued an official response to the French allegations.
🇷🇺Pro-Russian hacker groups (NoName057(16) and Z-Pentest) briefly claimed responsibility for the November supermarket refrigeration cyberattacks, sharing statements and a video on Telegram before deleting them. The 🇷🇺Russian government officially denied any involvement, calling the accusations “absurd” and “unfounded”.
Should 🇪🇺EU act now:
A) Yes;
B) No?
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🇺🇸 Apple's first foldable iPhone is folding... just not in the way anyone hoped.
iPhone Duo owners are posting pictures of cracked screens all over Reddit, some just HOURS after unboxing. And the damage keeps showing up in the exact same spot.
Now a YouTuber thinks he's found out why.
He cracked his own Duo during a durability test, ripped it apart, and found a tiny link in the hinge had snapped right at its weakest point.
That little piece of metal may be behind a very expensive headache for Apple's newest gadget.
Source: The Verge / Writer: Julie