State Department singles out Russian troll farm while offering $10 million for information on election interference

The State Department has announced a reward of up to $10 million for knowledge on foreign attempts to interfere in US elections.

The department singled out the IRA, its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin -- who is a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin --"and linked Russian entities and associates for their engagement in U.S. election interference."Both the IRA and Prigozhin -- nicknamed"Putin's chef" -- are sanctioned in the US.

Read MoreIt's the latest in a running series of public appeals from the State Department, under a program called Rewards for Justice, which offers multimillion-dollar awards for key information on American adversaries. Other announcements in the last year have covered Russian-speaking ransomware gangs, North Korean hackers and a Russian man accused of building malicious computer code that led a petrochemical plant to shut down in Saudi Arabia in 2017.

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