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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Study shows potentially higher prevalence of spyware infections than previously thought

Technology

Super Typhoon Yutu, strongest storm on Earth in 2018. Satellite view. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. Getty Images

U.S. government says Salt Typhoon is still in telecom networks

Geopolitics

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Inside a new initiative to lend cybersecurity volunteers to organizations that need it most

Exclusive

John Thune (R-SD) speaks after being elected Senate Majority Leader for the 119th Congress following the Senate Republican leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 13. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trio of South Dakota politicians set to have bigger roles on cybersecurity

Policy

Suspects detained during raid in Angola. (Interpol)

African cybercrime crackdown nets more than 1,000 suspects

Cybercrime

An Egyptian Fisherman holds a fishing net on the waters of the Pharaonic Sea in the village of Kafr Fisha, province of Monufia, in 2019. (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images)

Microsoft seizes websites tied to Egypt-based DIY phishing kit-maker

Cybercrime

Hogs are raised on the farm of Ted Fox in 2018 near Osage, Iowa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Meta cracks down on millions of accounts it tied to pig-butchering scams

Cybercrime

Sen. Richard Blumenthal speaks on July 11 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Bonnie Cash/Getty Images)

Sen. Blumenthal wants FCC to get busy on telecom wiretap security rules

Election Security

This handout image, obtained August 21, 2008 taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board the ESA’s Mars Express shows the highest-resolution full-disc image yet of the surface of the moon Phobos. (Photo by NASA/ESA via Getty Images)

Alleged Russian Phobos ransomware administrator extradited to U.S., in custody

Cybercrime