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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This illustration picture shows debit and credit cards arranged on a desk on April 6, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

No honor among thieves: Scammers target stolen credit card hubs

Technology

An assistant advises a customer at the L’Intendant Grands Vins de Bordeaux wine shop on June 29, 2018 in Bordeaux, France. L’Intendant is considered one of the grandest wine shops in France with a staircase that spirals up five floors surrounded by cylindrical shelves holding as many as 15,000 bottles of regional wine at prices ranging from €7 to thousands of Euros. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)

Wine scams spiked during COVID-19 lockdown

Threats

CNA Center in Chicago, Illinois on June 23, 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

CNA shares details about ransomware attack, recovery effort

Money

White House — (Obama White House / Flickr)

Biden’s cyber executive order to include new rules for federal agencies, contractors

Technology

A picture taken on November 23, 2015, at the headquarters of the French Judicial Police shows a part of the weapons seized by French police, along with cocaine and cannabis. AFP PHOTO / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD

DeepDotWeb boss pleads guilty to laundering millions

Policy

Troy, Mich. Flagstar Bank Corporate Branch & Home Loan Center

Hacker team-ups pose 2021 threat to financial industry, group cautions

Threats

Chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) listens during the confirmation hearing for William Burns, nominee for Director of the CIA, before the Senate Intelligence Committee February 24, 2021. (Photo by Tom Brenner-Pool/Getty Images)

Senator hammers Facebook, Instagram over COVID-19 misinformation

Technology

CNA Center in Chicago, Illinois on June 23, 2018. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Top insurer CNA disconnects systems after cyberattack

Money

View of Castle Hotel at Legoland is seen on August 08, 2020 in Carlsbad, California. (Photo by RBL/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

IT consultant sentenced to 2 years in revenge-hacking case

Government