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2025W23 Weekly report => 02/06 2K25 - 08/06 2K25 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, BluStealer, MintsStealer, Remcos, VIPKeylogger
       
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Weekly report by TG Soft's CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below are the details of the campaigns released during the week from 02
June to 08 June 2025.

In the monitored week, global campaigns increased significantly compared to the previous week; campaigns in Italian also increased.


The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Familiies:
AgentTesla, Ave_Maria, BluStealer, MintsStealer, Remcos and VIPKeylogger.

The blue bar shows the total number of campaigns monitored in Italy in each week, while the red bar concerns campaigns in Italian (and targeting Italy).

We monitored 32
campaigns during the week, 11 of which used Italian as their language.



In order to understand how the various weeks are divided, below is a small table showing the breakdown of the considered period:

Week from to
Week_20 12/05 18/05
Week_21 19/05 25/05
Week_22 26/05 01/06
Week_23 02/06 08/06


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was found on Tuesday 03 June with 9 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns written in Italian was found on Thursday 05 June with 4 campaigns per day, as is shown in the graph below:




In the following chart we see the malware families spread globally for each day of the week:



Instead in this graph we see the distribution based on malware family. In the past week 10 different families were detected:


This week's top samples were script files with 50.00%, tied with malware sent by e-mail.
In second place were WIN32 executable files with 18.75 per cent.
In third place we found Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with 15.62%.


In the chart below we can see the various types of language used to develop malware:


In the following graph we see the distribution of the various types of languages divided by day:

 


In this graph we can see the malware families spread during the week with target Italy (in Italian) and composed of 6 families:

 
The Italian campaigns analyzed by TG Soft's C.R.A.M. were grouped according to macro categories, obtained from the subject of the email message used for malware distribution (malspam). Below we see the subjects used in the various campaigns divided by day and type of malware.
 

03/06/2025
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

04/06/2025
MintsStealer spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".

05/06/2025
AgentTesla spread through a campaign themed "Purchases".
Ave_Maria 
spread through a campaign themed "Shipping".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

06/06/2025
BluStealer spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Remcos 
spread through a campaign themed "Various".
VIPKeylogger spread through a campaign themed "Orders". 
 

Check out the May/June campaigns

We invite you to check out the May/June 2025 reports, to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

26/05/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 26 May 2025 to 01 June 2025
19/05/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 19 May 2025 to 25 May 2025
12/05/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 12 May 2025 to 18 May 2025
05/05/2025 => Weekly report of Italian MalSpam campaigns from 05 May 2025 to 11 May 2025

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