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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Elon Musk shows off a shirt that says “DOGE” as he walks on the South Lawn of the white House after stepping off Marine One upon arrival to the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 9, 2025. (Photo by OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Scammers have a new tactic: impersonating DOGE

Threats

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Arrest, seizures in latest U.S. operation against North Korean IT workers

Threats

Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman Loera aka “el Chapo Guzman” (C), is escorted by marines as he is presented to the press in 2014 in Mexico City. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Hacker helped kill FBI sources, witnesses in El Chapo case, according to watchdog report

Government

Soldiers sweep the compound of Central One, an alleged scam hub masquerading as a call center company, on Oct. 31, 2024 in Bagac, Bataan province, Philippines. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

Slavery, torture, human trafficking discovered at 53 Cambodian online scamming compounds

Cybercrime

Dilok Klaisataporn, Getty Images

Short-term extension of expiring cyber information-sharing law could be on the table

Government

U.S. Representatives of the 119th Congress are sworn in during the first day of session in the House chamber in 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Meta confused over WhatsApp ban issued to House staffers

Government

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech standing in front of the monument “Fatherland, Valor, Honor” outside of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (SVR) in Moscow on June 30, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel / Sputnik / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL METZEL/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Unusually patient suspected Russian hackers pose as State Department in ‘sophisticated’ attacks on researchers

Technology

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Federal cyber insurance backstop should be tied to expiring terrorism insurance law, report recommends

Financial

The Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters is seen on April 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

SEC withdraws cyber rules for investment companies, advisers

Financial