France blames Iran for mass-hacks targeting freezers in grocery stores and blood banks

France’s foreign minister attributed at least two waves of cyberattacks on industrial refrigeration and freezer units across France and Europe to Iran. The intrusions hit equipment used by grocery stores and blood banks, disrupting temperature-controlled storage rather than conventional IT systems. Paris has not publicly detailed the number of affected sites or devices, but the targeting of operational technology marks an escalation in state-linked cyber activity. The episode matters because food and medical supply chains depend on continuous refrigeration, making even brief outages costly. Watch for France and EU allies to weigh coordinated retaliation, and for further technical attribution linking the campaigns to Iranian state-backed actors.