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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Sen. Ron Wyden walks past the Senate Chambers at the U.S. Capitol on July 21, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Wyden bill would require digital signatures for sensitive court orders

Government

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Threat intel firms suggest ransomware gang ‘BlackMatter’ has ties to DarkSide, REvil hackers

Financial

Joe Biden tours the National Counterterrorism Center Watch Floor at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in McLean, Virginia, July 27, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden says ‘shooting war’ could break out with foreign heavyweights over cyberattacks

Geopolitics

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Apple patches zero-day flaw that hackers may have exploited

Technology

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Kaseya says it didn’t pay ransomware gang for decryption key after hacks affected hundreds

Financial

Launch of Microsoft’s Windows 10 in Sydney on July 29, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. (Getty Images)

Scammers are using fake Microsoft 11 installers to spread malware

Financial

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Dutch police bust alleged ‘Fraud Family’ phishing service members

Financial

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No cyberattack in sprawling internet outage, Akamai says

Technology

This photograph taken on September 18, 2019, shows the logo of the French national cybersecurity agency Agence Nationale de la securite des systemes d’information(ANSSI) taken at ANSSI headquarters in Paris. (Photo by ERIC PIERMONT / AFP / Getty Images)

Chinese spies are exploiting routers to try hacking French targets, cyber agency says

Geopolitics