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2026W16Weekly report => 13/04 2K26 - 19/04 2K26 MalSpam campaigns targeting Italy


Malware spread through the campaigns: AgentTesla, FormBook, PureHVNC e Remcos.
      
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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 13 April 2026 to 19 April 2026.

During the week under review, both global campaigns and campaigns in Italian increased compared with the previous week.


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

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 62
campaigns during the week, 18 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_13 23/03 29/03
Week_14 30/03 05/04
Week_15 06/04 12/04
Week_16 13/04 19/04


During the week, the peak number of global campaigns was recorded on Wednesday 15 April, with 16 different campaigns per day. The peak number of campaigns in Italian was recorded on Wednesday 15 April, with 6 different campaigns, 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 66,13%.
WIN32 files follow in second place with 17,74%.
As for third place, we find Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) with 8,07%.
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 4 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. 

13/04/2026
AgentTesla 
spread through a campaign themed: "Miscellaneous".

14/04/2026
AgentTesla spread through two campaigns themed: "Bank transfers" and "Quotation".
FormBook spread through two campaigns themed: "Bank transfers" and "Orders".

15/04
/2026

AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed: "Orders".
FormBook 
spread through two campaigns themed: "Bank transfers" and "Orders".
Remcos 
spread through a campaign themed: "Orders".

16/04
/2026
FormBook - spread through a campaign themed: "Invoices".
Remcos 
spread through a campaign themed: "Requests"

17/04/2026
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed: "Orders".
FormBook 
spread through a campaign themed: "Requests".
PureHVNCspread through a campaign themed: "Invoices".
Remcos spread through a campaign themed: "Orders".

18/04/2026
AgentTesla - spread through a campaign themed: "Bank transfers".

Check out the March/April campaigns

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

06/04/2026 => Weekly report on Italian MalSpam campaigns from 06 April 2026 to 12 April 2026
30/03/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 30 March 2026 to 05 April 2026
23/03/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 23 March 2026 to 29 March 2026
16/03/2026 => Weekly report on MalSpam campaigns in Italy from 16 March 2026 to 22 March 2026
 
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