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Russian hackers may have piggybacked on a tool developed by JetBrains, which is based in the Czech Republic, to gain access to federal government and private sector systems in the United States.

Regulators are relying on insiders like Dina Srinivasan, who left her digital ad job after concluding that “Facebook and Google were going to win and everybody else is going to lose.”

More than 30 states said that the company downplayed websites that let users search for information in specialized areas.

As regulators seek ways to curb the company’s power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billions of web pages — behind its search engine.

The complaint, which targets the company’s hiring of immigrants on temporary visas, opens a new front in Washington’s battle against Big Tech.

Jeffrey A. Rosen, the deputy attorney general, said the Justice Department knew the company would use its many resources to fight the agency.

Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google’s parent company for less than a year, already faces the internet giant’s biggest threat in its 22 years.

A victory for the government could remake one of America’s most recognizable companies and the internet economy that it has helped define.

The Justice Department’s antitrust case points to restrictive contracts, a focus that a professor said “is as old as the Sherman Act.”

The suit is the first antitrust action against the company to result from investigations by American regulators.

A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.

The U.S. authorities accused the former antivirus impresario of evading taxes and said his extradition to American soil was pending.

President Trump and his allies have made criticism of major tech platforms a regular talking point as he campaigns for re-election.

The department is expected to outline a potential antitrust case against Google, which could be filed in the coming days.

In indictments against five Chinese nationals, the Justice Department described sophisticated attacks to hijack networks and extort universities, businesses and nonprofits.

The attorney general is said to have set a deadline over the objections of career lawyers who say they need more time to build the case.