16/02/2026
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2026W08 Weekly report => 16/02 2K26 - 22/02 2K26 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBook, PhantomStealer, QuasarRAT, Remcos e VIPKeylogger.
      
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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 16 February 2026 to 22 February 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:
AgentTesla, FormBook, PhantomStealer, QuasarRAT, 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 85
campaigns during the week, 16 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_05 26/01 01/02
Week_06 02/02 08/02
Week_07 09/02 15/02
Week_08 16/02 22/02


During the week, the peak of global campaigns was recorded on Tuesday, 17 February, with 26 different campaigns per day. The peak of campaigns in Italian was recorded on Tuesday, 17 February, with 6 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 10 different families were detected:

The top-ranking samples this week are Script files accounting for  37,65%.
MSIL files follow in second place with 24,71%.
As for third place, we find WIN32 executable files with 22,35%.
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 7 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.

16/02/2026
AgentTeslaspread through a campaign themed "Orders".
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

17/02/2026

Remcos spread through two campaigns themed "Shipping" e "Bank transfers".
AgentTeslaspread through two campaigns both themed "Orders".
PhantomStealer spread through a campaign themed "Quotations".
QuasarRAT - spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

18/02/2026
Downloader spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
FormBook spread through two campaigns themed "Invoices" and "Requests".
VIPKeylogger
 spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

19/02/2026
VIPKeylogger spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Quotations".

20/02/2026
VIPKeylogger spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
FormBookspread through a campaign themed "Various".

Check out the January/Febraury campaigns

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

09/02/2026 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 09 February 2026 to 15 February 2026
02/02/2026 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 02 Febraury 2026 to 08 Febraury 2026
26/01/2026 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 26 January 2026 to 01 Febraury 2026
19/01/2026 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 19 January 2026 to 25 January 2026
 
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