Four things we learned when US intelligence chiefs testified to Congress

The article summarizes the U.S. intelligence community’s latest unclassified threat assessment and Senate testimony, highlighting the widespread government use of commercial spyware, ongoing ransomware risks to critical infrastructure, the growing role of generative AI in influence operations and phishing, and the lack of legal limits on U.S. agencies buying Americans’ commercial data. It provides a high-level view of trends and policy implications rather than specific technical details or indicators.