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2026W12 Weekly report => 16/03 2K26 - 22/03 2K26 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns FormBook, Remcos, VIPKeylogger e XWormRAT.
       
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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 March 2026 to 22 March 2026.

During the week under review, the number of global campaigns increased compared to the previous week, whilst the number of campaigns in Italian decreased.


The week was characterized by Password Stealer of the Families:
FormBook, Remcos, VIPKeylogger and XWormRAT.

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 57
campaigns during the week, 8 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_09 23/02 01/03
Week_10 02/03 08/03
Week_11 09/03 15/03
Week_12 16/03 22/03


During the week, the peak in global campaigns was recorded on Wednesday 18 March, with 17 different campaigns per day. The peak in campaigns in Italian was recorded on Tuesday 17, Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 March, with two different campaigns per day on each of those days, 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 12 different families were detected:

The top-ranking samples this week are Script files accounting for 47,37%.
MSIL files follow in second place with 24,56%.
As for third place, we find WIN32 with 15,79%.
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 5 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.

16/03/2026
Remcos spread through a campaign themed "Documents".

17/03/2026
Downloader spread through a campaign themed "Requests".
Remcos - spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".

18/03
/2026

Downloader - spread through a campaign themed "Miscellaneous".
VIPKeylogger spread through a campaign themed "Requests".

19/03
/2026
FormBook spread through a campaign themed "Invoices".
XWormRAT spread through a campaign themed "Requests".

20/03/2026
VIPKeylogger 
spread through a campaign themed "Requests".

Check out the Febraury/March campaigns

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

09/03/2026 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 09 March 2026 to 15 March 2026
02/03/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 02 March 2026 to 08 March 2026
23/02/2026 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 23 February 2026 to 01 March 2026
16/02/2026 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 16 February 2026 to 22 February 2026
 
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