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2026W02 Weekly report => 05/01 2K26 - 11/01 2K26 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy

Malware spread through the campaigns: FormBook and PureLogs.
      
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Weekly report by the TG Soft CRAM, concerning Italian malspam campaigns.

Below are the details of the campaigns released during the week from 05 January 2025 to 11 January 2026.

During the monitored week, global campaigns increased compared to the previous week, with campaigns in Italian also on the rise.

The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Families: FormBook and PureLogs.
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 25 campaigns during the week, 2 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_51 15/12 21/12
Week_52 22/12 28/12
Week_01 29/12 04/01
Week_02 05/01 11/01


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was recorded on Monday, 05 January, with 11 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns in Italian was recorded on Monday, 05 January, with two different campaigns per day, as 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 6 different families were detected:

The top-ranking samples this week are  MSIL files, accounting for 60,00%.
SCRIPT files follow in second place with  32,00%.
As for third place, we find DELPHI executable files with 8.00%.

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 2 families:

 
The campaigns in Italian analyzed by the TG Soft 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. 

05/01/2026
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
PureLogs - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

Check out the December/January campaigns

We invite you to check out the December 2025/January 2026 reports, to stay up-to-date on the malspam campaigns circulating in Italy:

29/12/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 29 December 2025 to 4 January 2026
22/12/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 22 December 2025 to 28 December 2025
15/12/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 15 December 2025 to 21 December 2025
08/12/2025 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 08 December 2025 to 14 December 2025
 
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