Paris prosecutor opens probe into IRGC cyber unit Shahid Kaveh over fridge cyberattacks
The Paris prosecutor said she had opened an investigation into Shahid Kaveh, a shadowy cyber unit of the IRGC, the Islamic republic's ideological army, over the 'unprecedented' cyberattacks targeting French supermarkets' fridges in October.
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- France on Monday said Iran's Revolutionary Guards were behind "unprecedented" cyberattacks on supermarket fridges in the country last month, vowing sanctions on a European level against Tehran.
- FRANCE 24's Reza Sayah reports from Tehran.
Little is known about the Shahid Kaveh unit, although analysts have long observed that the IRGC, which has a vast network of operations, had actively branched out into cyber warfare in recent years.
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