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Paris prosecutor opens probe into IRGC cyber unit Shahid Kaveh over fridge cyberattacks
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The Paris prosecutor said she had opened an investigation into Shahid Kaveh, a shadowy cyber unit of the IRGC, the Islamic republic's ideological army, over the 'unprecedented' cyberattacks targeting French supermarkets' fridges in October.
Little is known about the Shahid Kaveh unit, although analysts have long observed that the IRGC, which has a vast network of operations, had actively branched out into cyber warfare in recent years.
FRANCE 24's Reza Sayah reports from Tehran.
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