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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Facebook takedown — Stickers bearing the Facebook logo at the F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, on April 30, 2019. (REUTERS / Stephen Lam)

Iranian spies tried hacking US military personnel by posing as job recruiters on Facebook

Government

An emperor moth (Saturnia) butterfly sits on a currant bush at a garden outside Moscow on May 4, 2018. (Photo credit should read YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)

An espionage campaign spread its wings from Myanmar to the Philippines, raising new questions

Threats

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CISA orders agencies to disable Microsoft Print Spooler in response to ‘PrintNightmare’ flaw

Government

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 10: Jen Easterly (L), nominee to be the Director of the Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Chris Inglis, nominee to be the National Cyber Director, testifies during their confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Senate confirms former White House, NSA official Jen Easterly as CISA director after delay

Policy

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Suspected Chinese hackers return with unusual attacks on domestic gambling companies

Geopolitics

malware, network, ransomware, virus, FIN7 — (Getty Images)

Jack Cable, Stanford student and cyber whiz, aims to crowdsource ransomware details

Financial

The Microsoft store is seen on April 30, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress via Getty Images)

Critical ‘PrintNightmare’ bug in Microsoft’s Windows tech is still causing headaches

Policy

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Houston man sentenced to 7 years for attempted $2 million romance scam

Financial

Moscow Metro Subway Escalator Russia — An escalator in the Moscow subway. (Getty Images)

How REvil evolved into a ransomware collective capable of extorting Kaseya, JBS

Technology