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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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

Demonstrators rally to ask for news of their Uyghur relatives and to express their concern about the ratification of a Chinese treaty in 2021. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP) (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)

Possible Chinese hackers pose as UN, human rights group to eavesdrop on beleaguered Uyghur population

Government

Townhouses face and old canal and bridge in Brugge, or Bruges, Belgium. (Getty Images)

Belgium uproots cyber-espionage campaign with suspected ties to China

Government

Greek god and goddess vector illustration series, Heracles or Hercules fighting the Lernaean Hydra or Hydra of Lerna, Second Labor of Heracles

How Hydra, a Russian dark net market, made more than $1 billion in 2020

Geopolitics

ransomware healthcare — The healthcare sector has seen enterprises both large and small shut down due to ransomware attacks. (Getty Images)

Conti ransomware gang victimized US health care, first-responder networks, FBI says

Privacy

SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna attends a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on the 2020 cyberattack that resulted in a series of major data breaches within several U.S. corporations and agencies and departments in the U.S. federal government. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman-Pool/Getty Images)

SolarWinds CEO reveals much earlier hack timeline, regrets company blaming intern

Government

Tonya Ugoretz, FBI, Cyber Division — Tonya Ugoretz speaks April 4, 2019, at the Cybersecurity Leadership Forum presented by Forcepoint and produced by CyberScoop and FedScoop. (CyberScoop)

National security officials outline hopes for US data breach notification law

Government

PARIS, FRANCE – MAY 22: The logo of the multinational insurance firm AXA office, at Matignon street, on May 22, 2020 in Paris, France. (Photo by Edward Berthelot/Getty Images)

Ransomware strikes AXA shortly after insurer announces it will stop covering extortion fees

Financial