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The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has alerted about a novel cyber assault initiative by the Russia-associated APT28 (also known as UAC-0001) threat actors utilizing Signal chat messages to distribute two fresh malware families named BEARDSHELL and COVENANT.

According to CERT-UA, BEARDSHELL is developed in C++ and provides the functionality to retrieve and execute PowerShell scripts, in addition to uploading the outcomes of the

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