Tim Starks

Tim Starks is senior reporter at CyberScoop. His previous stops include working at The Washington Post, POLITICO and Congressional Quarterly. An Evansville, Ind. native, he’s covered cybersecurity since 2003. Email Tim here: tim.starks@cyberscoop.com.

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In this photo illustration, social media and messaging apps are seen on a mobile phone screen on Nov. 11, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo Illustration by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

CISA alert draws attention to spyware’s targeting of messaging apps

Government

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This campaign aims to tackle persistent security myths in favor of better advice

Cybersecurity

The SolarWinds Corp. logo is seen at the headquarters in Austin, Texas on April 15, 2021 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

SEC drops case against SolarWinds tied to monumental breach

Government

In this photo illustration, an NSO Group logo is displayed on a smartphone with stock market percentages on the background. (Photo Illustration by Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

NSO Group argues WhatsApp injunction threatens existence, future U.S. government work

Privacy

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., talks to reporters about Democrats being excluded from briefings the Trump Administration gave to Republicans about military strikes on alleged drug boats at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 30, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Top Senate Intel Dem warns of ‘catastrophic’ cyber consequences of Trump admin national security firings, politicization

Policy

Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., speak at the 2025 Aspen Cyber Summit. (Tim Starks/Scoop News Group)

Information sharing law’s expiration could squander government vulnerability hunting efforts, senator says

Government

The White House. (Getty Images)

Completed draft of cyber strategy emphasizes imposing costs, industry partnership

Government

A wave breaks against a pier and a lighthouse as storm Ana smashes into France in Cassis on December 11, 2017, southeastern France. (Photo by BORIS HORVAT / AFP) (Photo by BORIS HORVAT/AFP via Getty Images)

Google, researchers see signs that Lighthouse text scammers disrupted after lawsuit

Research

President Donald Trump, left, and China’s President Xi Jinping arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, located next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan on October 30, 2025. Trump and Xi have both been publicly impassive about cyber operations in the past few months.(Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

While White House demands deterrence, Trump shrugs

Threats