As commercial spyware proliferates and hackers linked to U.S. adversaries step up their attempts to breach high-profile American targets, one U.S. senator says the FBI isn’t doing enough to help lawmakers protect themselves.

In a Monday letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked the bureau for more detailed recommendations that his colleagues could implement to keep Russian, Chinese and other cyber operatives from accessing their communications and devices.

Wyden said he was concerned that the FBI — which has warned about attempts to impersonate senior U.S. officials — was “not taking seriously the counterintelligence threat posed by spyware” and was “not providing government officials with effective cybersecurity guidance to defend against that threat.”

FBI representatives have given senators basic “remedial advice,” such as warning them not to click suspicious links, according to Wyden, but these tips are “insufficient” to keep out “foreign spies using advanced cyber tools,” including commercial spyware with “‘zero-click’ capabilities … that do not require any action by the victim.”

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