Iran was behind cyber-attack on French supermarket freezers, Paris says

gnabgib

Reuters French officials suspect Iran is behind refrigerator hacks, sources say (3 points, 3 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50427517 BBC France accuses Iran of supermarket fridge hacking (7 points, 2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50428440 gouv.fr French CERT and Foreign Ministry Now Attributing Fridge Attacks to Iran (2 points, 2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50428719 CNN France blames Iran for 'unprecedented' supermarket fridge cyberattack (7 points, 1 hour ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50429252

verdverm

unless we learn this is true... https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-the-military-will-hack... tl;dr - about more than election hacking, the possibility that the US military is behind various hacks and influence operations by faking being Russia/Iran/NK

xvxvx

So it was Israel then…

pona-a

Does it even matter? If you expose a vulnerable software to the open internet, it's gonna get hacked, and it doesn't matter if it's a script-kiddy from Russia, UK, or a North Korean spy. This was an ethically disclosed vulnerability, patched months before the incident in question. Update your stuff!

bawolff

huh. I was betting on it being russia. As a grey-zone war tactic, i feel like it doesnt super make a lot of sense for iran. France isn't super involved, so its more likely to draw them in then make them think the costs of supporting USA is unacceptable. On the other hand, not much of Iran's strategy has made much long term sense and more has felt like desperation from a gov that is out of options and wants to go down swinging, so i suppose this fits with that.

josefritzishere

Iran is about the least likely candidate. If they're proposing Iran as a cover than that would make it the US/Israel. Both have a pretty well documented history of false flag attacks.

mlmonkey

I have no idea what tf Iran's leadership is doing. Israel/Palestine is not their battle anyways; just ignore it and move on! Make peace with Israel, stop supporting Hamas/Hezbollah and just focus on your own problems. What does Iran have to gain from fighting with Israel? It can't be that they hate all Jews, when Iran is one of the few Muslim countries with any Jews left [1]. Just drop it guys, and learn to live in peace. There's a lot more to this world than continuously fighting with each other. /rant [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Jews

1as5431

According to the article the attack came from an Iranian IP address. Well ... Suppose it wasn't a false flag operation. Why would Iran threaten the EU when the EU was skeptical about the war early this year and suffers from it due to lack of Qatari LNG? The logical step would be to do diplomatic outreach to the EU. Now the EU has a casus belli (more like supporting the war rather than participating). It all sounds like the EU is selling the war to its population, but maybe Iran is really that stupid.

nsoam

Oh wait wait wait wait... Wasn't it Russia? There were so, so many comments here calling this a 4D move by Putin with absolutely no proof whatsoever, which definitely weren't astroturfed, oh no siree. What will the European people do without a single enemy to hate? We need them laser-focused on one thing to blame our troubles on. Otherwise we may start looking at Brussels.

MomsAVoxell

"They used Farsi", and "the IP is in the house with you now" are really, really weak bits of evidence. I hope there will be a full exposé of the actual evidence. "Trust the authorities, bro" just doesn't cut it any more.

metalman

this is impossible. Iran simply does not have the excess capacity to perform sophisticated cyber stunts while ther country is under attack and it will be all hands on deck trying to gain intelliegence on impending and ongoing attacks. this is the most clumsy fake news ever, by a government facing country wide protests about there horrible economic conditions brought on by the various wars bieng pushed by governments in the west.

spwa4

Is that surprising? Iran's has now declared they'll fire rockets on European cities the next time anything happens to them, under various circumstances. They have also proven with the rocket attempt on Diego Garcia to be able to hit 3800km away, which would put every European capital except Madrid, Dublin and Lissabon in range of Iran's rockets (and maybe nukes). And it's not technically confirmed that's their maximum range. Even London is (just barely) in range. https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/04/iranian-mp-tells-euronew... (of course emphasizing the usual, namely that anything that happens is Europe's fault, without specifying, of course, what they mean by that. Even on the base issue it's not clear: obviously US uses European bases to supply it's middle eastern ones. Is that a "rocketable" offence? Plus: if Europe makes things difficult for the US, does anyone seriously believe that lowers the risk of an attack?) Europe is once again under constant threat of rocket and nuke attacks. The "end of history" has been canceled. This will get a lot worse before it gets better.