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2026W09 Weekly report => 23/02 2K26 - 01/03 2K26 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTeslaN-W0rmPhantomStealer, 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 23 February 2026 to 01 March 2026.

During the week monitored, global campaigns decreased compared to the previous week, while campaigns in Italian increased.

The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Families:
AgentTesla, N-W0rm, PhantomStealer, 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 68
campaigns during the week, 17 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_06 02/02 08/02
Week_07 09/02 15/02
Week_08 16/02 22/02
Week_09 23/02 01/03


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was recorded on Monday 23 February, with 24 different campaigns per day. The peak in campaigns in Italian was recorded on Monday 23 February, with 8 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 13 different families were detected:

The top-ranking samples this week are Script files accounting for 55,88%.
WIN32 executable files files follow in second place with 19,12%.
As for third place, we find MSIL files with 14,71%.
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 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. 

23/02/2026
AgentTesla- spread through three campaigns themed "Orders".
Downloader 
spread through a campaign themed "Offers".
Remcos - spread through three campaigns themed "Orders".
VIPKeylogger spread through a campaign themed "Quotations".

24/02/2026
PhantomStealer spread through a campaign themed "Orders".
Remcos - spread through three campaigns themed: "Miscellaneous""Quotations".
VIPKeylogger spread through a campaign themed "Quotations".

25/02/2026
AgentTesla - spread through two campaigns themed "Orders".
N-W0rm 
spread through a campaign themed "Quotations".
Remcos 
spread through a campaign themed "Orders".

 

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:

16/02/2026 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 16 February 2026 to 22 February 2026
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
 
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