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By Brian Fung, Zachary Cohen and Geneva Sands, CNN Business REvil, the ransomware gang that attacked meat supplier JBS Foods this spring and a major IT software vendor this month, has mysteriously vanished from the internet, according to cybersecurity experts tracking the group. Websites and other infrastructure belonging to the cybercriminal gang, which is believed

By Brian Fung and Clare Sebastian, CNN Business The most critical moment in a ransomware negotiation usually comes long before the victim and the hackers discuss a price. By the time the two sides start talking, the hackers have already gained significant control of a company’s network, most likely securing access to sensitive account data,

By Charles Riley and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Business France’s antitrust regulator has fined Google nearly $600 million and given the company two months to come up with proposals on how to pay publishers for their content or face more punishment. The regulator said in a statement on Tuesday that Google had disregarded several injunctions related

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Chinese regulators have cleared the way for Tencent to take complete control of Sogou, a major search engine that could help the tech firm take on market leader Baidu. The approval is a welcome blessing from Chinese regulators who have been cracking down hard recently on internet giants, shaking the

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Microsoft on Monday announced that it’s buying cybersecurity firm RiskIQ to help companies better protect themselves as ransomware and other cyber attacks become increasingly disruptive. Microsoft said the acquisition will help its customers address the unique risks created by remote work and relying on cloud computing amid “the increasing sophistication

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Indians on Twitter — from top politicians to business executives — are celebrating one of the women who flew to the edge of space along with Richard Branson. Sirisha Bandla, who is the vice president of government affairs and research operations at Virgin Galactic, roared into the sky over New

By Laura He, CNN Business China’s crackdown on Big Tech just keeps growing. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) — the country’s powerful internet watchdog — this weekend proposed that any company with data on more than one million users must seek the agency’s approval before listing its shares overseas. It also proposed companies must

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Richard Branson became the first person to ride into space aboard a rocket he helped fund. The supersonic space plane developed by his company, Virgin Galactic, roared into the sky over New Mexico early Sunday, carrying Branson and three fellow crewmembers. Branson -— along with Virgin Galactic employees Beth Moses,

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Twitter is going through an extraordinarily tough year in India. But the company’s response to the turmoil has left even some people who would like to be on its side baffled. Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms have been locked in a tense stand-off with India over strict new information technology

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Richard Branson has boldly gone where no space baron has gone before, when he rocketed to more than 50 miles above Earth in the space plane from his rocket venture, Virgin Galactic. Branson’s brief joy ride was more than two decades in the making. He founded Virgin Galactic in 2004

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Woz is throwing his weight behind the “right to repair” movement. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, known in the tech world by his nickname, spoke out on the issue during a recent appearance on Cameo, a website that lets fans pay celebrities for video messages. In a post to Louis Rossmann,

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Microsoft’s latest security vulnerability could have a lingering impact both on consumers and businesses at a time when many around the world are already on high alert for disruptive cyber attacks. Researchers at security firm Sangfor recently found a Windows vulnerability, called PrintNightmare, that could allow hackers to remotely

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Instacart has tapped one of the top female executives from Facebook to be its next CEO ahead of a possible Wall Street debut. Fidji Simo, who served most recently as a vice president and head of the Facebook App, will replace Instacart’s cofounder Apoorva Mehta as chief executive of

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business An incident takes place. Law enforcement investigates. A culprit is identified, apprehended and prosecuted. That’s typically how we think of addressing a crime. But as some ransomware victims may now be discovering, that process is much more complicated when the criminal is on another continent and the crime takes place