The Paris Prosecutor’s Office announced that it is launching a judicial investigation primarily targeting the leader of the Iranian group, Shahid Kaveh, whom it suspects of being behind the cyberattack on refrigerators in French supermarkets (as well as in other countries) in early October.
His two associates and “any other person who may be identified” are also being targeted, a Paris prosecutor clarified.
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The investigation concerns “the fraudulent hacking of an automated data processing system by an organized criminal group and the causing of damage posing a danger to people by an organized criminal group,” according to BFMTV.
According to the prosecutor’s office, an aggravating circumstance for both offenses is that “they were committed with the intent to serve a foreign power—in this case, Iran—as well as through participation in a criminal organization for the purpose of preparing a crime.”
Shahid Kaveh is a cyberattack unit linked to a center of the Revolutionary Guards that deals with cybersecurity and cyberattacks.
The judicial investigation, BFMTV reports, is the result of a several-week investigation conducted by the Cybercrime Division and the Internal Security Directorate, with the support of specialized government agencies.
Specifically, the investigation revealed the Iranian group’s “characteristic modus operandi,” namely “the use of the Farsi language and IP addresses pointing to computers located in Iran,” according to French authorities.
Source: Proto Thema
