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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Burgeoning ransomware gang Avaddon appears to shut down, mysteriously

Financial

Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman joins members of Congress at an event on July 12, 2016 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for MoveOn.org)

Congress pummels Colonial Pipeline CEO over government coordination after disruptive ransomware incident

Government

A plume of smoke rises from the Ranch 2 Fire on August 15, 2020 in Azusa, California. The fire blackened at least 2,500 acres in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles but burned away from homes causing evacuation orders to be lifted on August 14. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Insurer paid $65,000 to help a city unlock ransomware in 2018. A second hack was more expensive.

Financial

Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco speaks at a press conference on June 7, 2021 at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images)

DOJ seizes $2.3 million in cryptocurrency payments from Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack

Financial

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 12: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on May 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. The majority of the briefing focused on the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline.. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Government, industry scramble to prioritize ransomware amid fallout from pipeline, JBS breaches

Policy

A voter casts a ballot at a voting machine at a polling station at Cheyenne High School on Election Day on November 8, 2016 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

First major voting vendor, Hart InterCivic, partners with Microsoft on ambitious software security tool ElectionGuard

Government

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Cybercrime forum advertises alleged database, source code from Russian firm that helped Parler

Geopolitics

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 25: U.S. President Joe Biden answers questions from members of the press before departing from the White House. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Biden budget seeks $750 million to respond to SolarWinds compromises, plus billions more for cyber

Government

polling place, election site — (Lorie Shaull / Flickr)

Cozy Bear revisits one of its greatest hits, researchers say: election skulduggery

Government