Paris – 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 Oct. 11-12 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 Guard was behind the “unprecedented” cyberattacks, a charge Iran rejected.
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