France blamed Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday, 9 November, for the October attack on supermarket refrigeration, summoning Iran's ambassador and promising EU-wide sanctions. Paris prosecutors opened an investigation into a Guards-affiliated cyber unit's leadership.
Refrigeration systems in food retail and on military sites are increasingly networked, which makes them a possible target for cyber sabotage. In France, supermarket freezers and coolers were disrupted overnight from 11 to 12 October, and US officials are now probing similar failures at military bases.
France says Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind the October cyberattack on supermarket refrigeration. Estonia separately accuses Russia of state-sponsored terrorism over hybrid attacks.
Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Saturday that some of his personal data had been published on the dark web, and Giorgia Meloni denounced pro-Russian hackers, according to Le Monde. Defence minister Guido Crosetto called for offensive action instead of only reacting, FAZ reports.
Paris prosecutors are investigating whether foreign powers are behind the bomb hoaxes that disrupted European flights. Separately, Italy's Tajani says pro-Russian hackers published data on him and his family.
US authorities have issued a global warning about cyberattacks on refrigeration systems, Handelsblatt reports. The available source material gives no further detail on the attackers or the affected sites.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Cyber, which carries the highest cybersecurity risk rating.
Hackers tampered with cold stores of the French blood service, which says no products were damaged. Ahold Delhaize cut its profit forecast after its own hack.
Hackers remotely overheated freezers at supermarkets and food suppliers in over ten European countries from Monday. Germany, the UK and Greece have now reported cases.
Hackers remotely overheated fridges and freezers at dozens of supermarkets in six European countries on Monday. The EU calls it a deliberate attempt to disrupt food supply.
Reuters reports, citing officials, that the Pentagon suspects a cyberattack behind freezer malfunctions at military bases. It follows the sabotage of refrigeration in French supermarkets on 11 and 12 October.