APT28 deploys BEARDSHELL and COVENANT since April 2024 targeting Ukrainian military, enabling cloud-based espionage and persistent surveillance.

Malware is evolving to evade sandboxes by pretending to be a real human behind the keyboard. The Picus Red Report 2026 shows 80% of top attacker techniques now focus on evasion and persistence, ...

The Russian state-sponsored APT28 threat group is using a custom variant of the open-source Covenant post-exploitation framework for long-term espionage operations.

GhostClaw poses as an OpenClaw installer package, stealing system credentials and sensitive data before deploying a persistent RAT.