The Weird, Twisting Tale of How China Spied on Alysa Liu and Her Dad

A collection of WIRED security stories covering a wide set of emerging cyber and privacy threats: alleged Chinese state surveillance targeting US residents (including athlete Alysa Liu’s family); an EU age‑verification app that researchers say can be hacked in minutes; large consumer data breaches at a gym chain and hotel group; disruptive DDoS and other platform‑level attacks (e.g., Bluesky); proliferation of deepfake nude imagery affecting hundreds of students; domestic misuse of spyware and doxxing in Telegram groups; ongoing illicit marketplaces and sanctioned entities hosted on messaging/