France supermarket hack marks new phase in Iran’s shadow war

PARIS, France: The cyberattack on supermarket refrigerators that France has blamed on Iran marks a new phase in the asymmetric campaign Tehran is waging against the United States, extending it onto European soil, analysts say.

Scores of French supermarkets were hit in the October 11 and 12 cyberattacks, which raised the temperatures in their refrigerators, in some cases forcing them to throw away entire inventories of perishable food.

France said Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were behind the “unprecedented” cyberattacks, a charge Iran rejected.

While Paris referred only to attacks against French supermarkets, similar incidents were reported in at least 11 other European countries.