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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Stelios Kouloglou arrives for a meeting with the police commissioner at the police headquarters on Dec. 3, 2019 in Valletta, Malta. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP) (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

Someone infected a spyware probe overseer with spyware

Geopolitics

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This phishing kit looks more like BEC-as-a-service

Cybercrime

WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 30: White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought testifies before a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on June 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government heard testimony from Vought on President Trump’s FY2027 budget request. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump budget boss Russell Vought open to re-staffing CISA

Government

\A light rain falls outside of the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of the release of new opinions on June 23, 2026. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Supreme Court delivers ‘major win’ for tech privacy in Chatrie ruling

Privacy

In this photo illustration, the Cellebrite logo is displayed on the screen of a tablet. (Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Russia uses Cellebrite to break into human rights activist’s phone, even after cancellation of contract

Geopolitics

Cisco Systems, Inc. logo and lettering can be seen on the Cisco Systems GmbH headquarters building in Garching near Munich (Bavaria). Cisco is a US company from the telecommunications industry and is primarily known for its routers and switches. (Photo by Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Malicious hackers exploit Cisco zero-day for highest access level at communications service provider

Research

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In a first, a court takedown goes after two cybercrime tools at once

AI

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Open-source security is posing challenges governments can’t easily solve

AI

The entrance to O’Smach on the Thailand Cambodia border on March 12, 2026 in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia. The Thai government led a group of foreign press to the O’Smach casino compound near the Chong Chom O’Smach border crossing in Oddar Meanchey province, previously used for scam operations, after clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along the disputed border in December. The interiors show where scammers lived in dormitories and their workspace. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images)

Justice Department seizes infrastructure used by cyber scam and criminal marketplace

Cybercrime