A U.S. State Department reward of $10 million has been announced for information on Amir Yaryab, a senior Iranian official described as the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC). Officials allege that Yaryab directed multiple Iranian hacking groups that have targeted critical infrastructure across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, with sectors including defence, news, shipping, travel (hotels and airlines), energy, finance, and telecommunications.
The State Department says Yaryab oversees operations run by IRGC-CEC-affiliated groups such as CyberAv3ngers, Dadeh Afzar Arman (DAA), and Mehrsam Andisheh Saz Nik (MASN), which it says have used malware to assault civilian infrastructure worldwide.
The report notes that the State Department attributed the attacks to these groups and ties them to Yaryab’s leadership of the IRGC-CEC. The article references The Record for further details and does not provide specific indicators of compromise or technical payloads within its text. The claim frame distinguishes between confirmed leadership and the alleged scope of operations, framing the information as a formal request for intelligence rather than a ready-to-implement technical outline.
Practical responses are not detailed in the piece beyond the reward announcement and attribution to named groups. The content remains a report on government assertions and does not verify exploitation independently within the article itself.