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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A wave breaks against a pier and a lighthouse as storm Ana smashes into France in Cassis on December 11, 2017, southeastern France. (Photo by BORIS HORVAT / AFP) (Photo by BORIS HORVAT/AFP via Getty Images)

Google, researchers see signs that Lighthouse text scammers disrupted after lawsuit

Research

President Donald Trump, left, and China’s President Xi Jinping arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, located next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan on October 30, 2025. Trump and Xi have both been publicly impassive about cyber operations in the past few months.(Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

While White House demands deterrence, Trump shrugs

Threats

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Google files lawsuit against Lighthouse ‘phishing for dummies’ text scammers

Cybercrime

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Cyber information sharing law would get extension under shutdown deal bill

Policy

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New Landfall spyware apparently targeting Samsung phones in Middle East

Privacy

The Congressional Budget Office hallways on the 4th floor of the Ford House Office Building. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images via Getty Images)

Agency that provides budget data to Congress hit with security incident

Threats

A laparoscopic surgical robot demonstrates grasping rose petals during the third phase of the 138th edition of the China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) at the Canton Fair Complex on Nov. 1, 2025 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. A Commerce Department office should investigate Chinese government-connected products in more than a dozen emerging industries for security threats, a group of House GOP committee leaders said in a letter they released Wednesday. (Photo by Huang Taiming/VCG via Getty Images)

House GOP leaders seek government probe, restrictions on Chinese-made tech

AI

People watch a television news programme showing file footage of North Korea’s missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Jan. 1, 2020. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

North Korean companies, people sanctioned for money laundering from cybercrime, IT worker schemes

Financial

A sign marks the location of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) headquarters building on January 29, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

OPM plans to give CyberCorps members more time to find jobs after shutdown ends

Government