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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Smoke rises as Israel targets the notorious Evin Prison in north of Tehran, Iran, on June 23, 2025. Evin prison has been known as the place where Iran imprisons mostly political activists, dissidents and journalists. Media reports say that administrative building and the hospital of Evin prison have been damaged, and a number of families of inmates and prison staff have been killed and wounded. (Photo by Nikan / Middle East Images via AFP)

Iranian hackers were more coordinated, aligned during Israel conflict than it seemed

Threats

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AI company Perplexity is sneaking to get around blocks on crawlers, Cloudflare alleges

Threats

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‘Highly evasive’ Vietnamese-speaking hackers stealing data from thousands of victims in 62+ nations

Threats

Sean Cairncross, as CEO of the Millenium Challenge Corporation, speaks onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. (Photo by Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)

Senate confirms national cyber director pick Sean Cairncross

Government

Members of the Peoples Liberation Army band leave after the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, or CPPCC, at the Great Hall of the People on March 10, 2025 in Beijing. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

China accuses US of exploiting Microsoft zero-day in cyberattack

Geopolitics

Cranes are seen at the Port Newark Container Terminal in Newark, N.J. on April 8, 2025. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Feds still trying to crack Volt Typhoon hackers’ intentions, goals

Government

Parts of the IBM Quantum System Two are displayed at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center on June 6, 2025 in Yorktown Heights, New York. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Senate legislation would direct federal agencies to fortify against quantum computing cyber threats

Government

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden speaks at the rally to Say NO to Tax Breaks for Billionaires & Corporations at the U.S. Capitol on April 10, 2025. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Fair Share America)

CISA says it will release telecom security report sought by Sen. Wyden to lift hold on Plankey nomination

Workforce

Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs confirmation hearing for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought on Jan. 15. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Sen. Hassan wants to hear from SpaceX about scammers abusing Starlink

Geopolitics