France has fallen victim to the most elaborate “Is your refrigerator running? Then you better go get it” prank of all time, and it says Iran is to blame. French officials, including the foreign minister and the Paris prosecutor’s office, say an Iranian hacking group was responsible for cyberattacks that disrupted refrigeration systems at hundreds of supermarkets last month. Similar attacks subsequently spread to other European countries and even targeted French blood-storage facilities, though officials have not established whether those incidents were connected.

In a translated statement provided to Gizmodo, France’s Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that the attacks across the country’s infrastructure were executed by “an organized group” and “were carried out to serve a foreign power, in this case, Iran.” The organization named Shahid Kaveh as the primary offender, a cyber unit allegedly affiliated with the Electronic and Cyber ​​Center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC-ECC).…