As cyberattacks and other digital threats continue to feature in the US-Iran conflict, Washington is putting a face to one of the senior figures behind Tehran’s growing cyber apparatus. 

On Sept. 3, the US State Department offered up to $10 million for information on Amir Yaryab, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official who oversees a key part of Iran’s cyber operations.

What happened: Yaryab is a senior official in the IRGC’s Cyber-Electronic Command, or IRGC-CEC, where he leads the organization’s Cyber Operations Command, according to a notice issued by the State Department’s Rewards for Justice program. The United States says he also directs multiple IRGC-CEC components, including the operative groups Shahid Hemmat and Shahid Shushtari.

Those groups have conducted cyber and cyber-enabled operations against critical infrastructure and other targets in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, according to the notice. The targeted sectors include defense, news, shipping, travel, energy, finance and telecommunications. Yaryab also allegedly oversees operations by IRGC-CEC-affiliated groups including CyberAv3ngers, Dadeh Afzar Arman and Mehrsam Andisheh Saz Nik. The US government says those groups have used malware against civilian infrastructure worldwide.