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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Appeals court clears path for El Salvadoran journos to sue spyware maker

Privacy

China and Italy, two flags waving against blue sky. 3d image. Aleksandra Aleshchenko, iStock/Getty Images Plus

Italian authorities arrest Chinese man over Microsoft Exchange Server hack, targeting of COVID-19 researchers

Threats

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Treasury slaps sanctions on people, companies tied to North Korean IT worker schemes

Threats

U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, signs the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act into law during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 4, 2025. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

GOP domestic policy bill includes money for military cyber

Government

June 12, 2012: Close up to FBI website through a magnifying glass on the laptop. brightstars, iStock/GettyImages

Top FBI cyber official: Salt Typhoon ‘largely contained’ in telecom networks

Government

Elon Musk shows off a shirt that says “DOGE” as he walks on the South Lawn of the white House after stepping off Marine One upon arrival to the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 9, 2025. (Photo by OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Scammers have a new tactic: impersonating DOGE

Threats

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Arrest, seizures in latest U.S. operation against North Korean IT workers

Threats

Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman Loera aka “el Chapo Guzman” (C), is escorted by marines as he is presented to the press in 2014 in Mexico City. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Hacker helped kill FBI sources, witnesses in El Chapo case, according to watchdog report

Cybercrime

Soldiers sweep the compound of Central One, an alleged scam hub masquerading as a call center company, on Oct. 31, 2024 in Bagac, Bataan province, Philippines. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Slavery, torture, human trafficking discovered at 53 Cambodian online scamming compounds

Cybercrime