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Iran’s elite hacking cell that left France hungry

When supermarket fridge temperatures across France began to soar in October, spoiling millions of euros worth of food, suspicion fell almost immediately on Russia.

But on Monday, the French foreign minister identified an Iranian hacking group as responsible for the cyber attack, which he described as “unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression”.

Shahid Kaveh, the accused cyber warfare unit, sits deep inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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